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This book was the foundation of international fame for EG . It won a Metro Goldwyn Mayer prize worth £30,000 in English money, for which the US publisher submitted it. (After various tax levies and...

This film flopped almost as dramatically as its predecessor had succeeded; MGM lost $2,311,000. Ysenda Maxtone Graham writes, It is a dreadful film.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released a movie version of War Nurse in the same year.

Lilly's Story was translated into German and published in Switzerland in 1952, entitled simply Lilly. This was also the title for the Danish edition which appeared in 1954. Both stories were published in an...

In MGM 's sequel Mrs Miniver (again played by Greer Garson but filmed this time in Britain) fought a long and losing battle with cancer. They made this movie before JS was herself diagnosed with cancer.

Pride and Prejudice has been many times adapted for the theatre and for the large and small screens. Both A. A. Milne and the Australian dramatist Helen Jerome produced stage versions during the 1930s, and...

The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down...

The film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . British screenwriters Claudine West and Andersen Ellis , along with German author George Froeschel , wrote the screenplay. James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan played the leads.

EAR published stories in The Passing Show and Lilliput (from which one, Peace Comes to a Ministry, was selected by Kaye Webb for inclusion in the anthology Lilliput Goes to War, 1985). Over...

This was released as a film by MGM on 1 August 1944, with Katharine Hepburn in the starring role and no Chinese actors in the cast.

After arriving in Hollywood in fall 1942, CS became a screenwriter: I was a $175-a-week woman, and I counted for nothing. She worked in teams at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , on Madame Curie, 1943, and They...

MGM commissioned AC , following its successful film of her Murder She Said, to write a filmscript for Dickens 's Bleak House. It does not appear that this movie was ever made.

EG subsequently adapted for the silent screen her novels His Hour (filmed by MGM in 1924), Six Days (1924), Man and Maid (MGM, 1925), The Reason Why (as Soul Mates, 1925), Love's Blindness (MGM...

Louis B. Mayer invited JS to write the script for a Mrs Miniver sequel, but by then she felt too distant from her character to produce it. He then invited her to Hollywood, hoping that...

Finished in March 1956, it was her last novel to date from before her marriage and was dedicated to John Bayley . IM accepted an out-of-court settlement from MGM after their film The Sandpiper...