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The city—and the movie industry—hadn’t existed for very long at that point. And his father had helped to build what even then existed, out there in the desert, relatively near the Pacific Ocean. His father, the estimable B. P. Schulberg, was a movie-producing power-house. He’d introduced America to Clara Bow—the original “It Girl”—as well as the character that became the American version of Sherlock Holmes: Nero Wolfe. He made a lot of movies, and helped to touch off “the industry,” which has since gained a bit of worldwide cultural traction.
