After the end of World War II where he had served as a pilot in the US Air Force, he found himself by accident in Hollywood. The author was born in Paris in 1920 and went to New York City to make it as an artist, and painter. Published in French in 1978, but never translated into English, Noel Howard’s Hollywood sur Nil is the fascinating account of the making of Howard Hawks ’ Land of the Pharaohs, an epic production partly shot in Egypt in 1954.
