Elke Heidenreich introduces us to Dorothy Parker: a writer from New York who is unhappy and unlucky in life, but funny and exciting in her writing. Our critic was particularly impressed by her poetry.
She was a very clever and deeply unhappy person: always the wrong men, miscarriages, abortions, suicide attempts, a major alcohol problem. And she was also a committed leftist. She wasn't a communist, but as a leftist she was of course on McCarthy's Hollywood blacklist.