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# Author Beverly Gray to discuss Roger Corman at Fairview Library
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/the-b-list/
- Published: 2004-05-17T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:19:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Entertainment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

A best-selling author and longtime Santa Monica resident is talking B-movies. Beverly Gray, the author of “Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh- Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers,” will reveal Wednesday what she learned while working for Roger Corman, the famed B-movie maker known for launching the film careers of Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and James Cameron.

Corman, also a Santa Monican, has been called “the Godfather of Independent Film.”

During a 50-year period, he produced more than 500 movies on shoestring budgets, making a profit on nearly every one, officials said.

He first made a name for himself by directing the B-movies “Little Shop of Horrors,” “The Pit and the Pendulum” and “The Wild Angels.”

Gray, who was Corman’s story editor for nearly a decade, interviewed 100 former friends and colleagues of Corman to create a portrait of the man behind the movies.

The free event will be held at the Fairview Branch Library Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., 2101 Ocean Park Blvd.

For more information, call the library at (310) 450-0443.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 17, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/051704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)