Published in June 1860, "Malaeska; the Indian Wife of the White Hunter" is considered the first dime novel.
As a director, he sometimes overreaches himself ("Bird"), but his ambitions are usually noble ("White Hunter, Black Heart").
Shortly after the film's release she was cast in White Hunter, a B movie that would reunite her with producer Irving Cummings.
June 9 - Malaeska: The Indian Wife of the White Hunter becomes the first dime novel to be published.
"You really want to try the 'Great White Hunter' bit?"
Mr. Eastwood, whose "White Hunter, Black Heart" opens today, could not on the surface of it be less like the man he has chosen to play.
"White Hunter, Black Heart," a film as brave as it is improbable, could never be accused of that.
Bending his gaze upon her now, he quivered all over like a nervous young hippopotamus finding itself face to face with its first White Hunter.
His telephone conversation concluded, the White Hunter had prudently decided to avoid the living-room and head straight for the great open spaces, where he could be alone.
She loved the White Hunter.