Feb. 7, 1944: For many years Rachel Field worked in Paramount’s New York office as a script reader, examining the merit of all submitted material … She once remarked: “Hmf, I can do better than some of this stuff. Some day I’m going to write one and see it made into a Paramount film” … Years after, she finished her first best-seller, “All This and Heaven, Too” … The royalties and prestige were tremendous, but Rachel’s ambition was not yet fulfilled. The book was filmed by Warner’s … Last year she wrote “And Now Tomorrow” — and died shortly after — before the agent sold it … To Paramount.

From the St. Petersburg Times.