The Brat
Rouff, Ruth A.
It's not easy being a child star in Hollywood, especially when you're beginning to suspect that you're gay. The Brat is set in the glittering golden age of Hollywood--the 1930s and early 1940s--and chronicles the life and times of two child actresses, who just happen to be best friends. Helen Payne is cool, reserved, and decidedly hetero. Her best pal is the spunky, outspoken, "tomboyish" moppet Millie Macon, who reigns for a time as America's...