Abstract
Rose LeClair has everything she ever wanted: a successful career as a box office starlet, a handsome, successful Hollywood husband, more fans and money than she could have hoped for, her face on the cover of every check-out magazine. And she is about to take her own life. At the last moment, however, she recoils from the act, and tries to imagine a future of even greater possibility. First published in 1967, The Camera Always Lies is that rare thing: a humane and moral Hollywood drama, exploring the pressures society places on people in public life, while offering a dramatic and human story of one woman's struggle to survive them.