Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
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Textual Production | Jane Austen | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Enid Bagnold | During the Second World War EB
became friendly with photographer Cecil Beaton
(with whom she exchanged plays), Lady Diana Cooper
, and actress Dame Edith Evans
. Later she also became a friend of MGM |
Textual Production | Enid Bagnold | 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... |
Textual Production | Phyllis Bottome | 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. Calder, Robert. Beware the British Serpent. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 247 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Reception | Pearl S. Buck | The Good Earth was a Book of the Month Club
choice, on the recommendation of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
, who had sat up all night reading it. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster. 188, 193 |
Textual Production | Pearl S. Buck | 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. Conn, Peter. Pearl S. Buck. A Cultural Biography. Cambridge University Press. 280-1 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | |
Publishing | Elinor Glyn | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
, with whom EG
had signed a contract to write film scripts, produced her film adaptation of her famous romance Three Weeks. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 153 |
Employer | Elinor Glyn | To boost her persona as a dignified foreign lady, she called herself Madame Glyn. Glyn, Elinor. Romantic Adventure. E. P. Dutton. 299-300, 309 Hardwick, Joan. Addicted to Romance: The Life and Adventures of Elinor Glyn. Andre Deutsch. 219-21 |
Textual Production | Elinor Glyn | |
Reception | Elizabeth Goudge | 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... |
Publishing | Aldous Huxley | Though AH
had a sturdy relationship with his book publisher—he renewed his three-year contract with Chatto and Windus
in 1941 for the seventh time—his film work during the war years was freelance. In 1939, before... |
Performance of text | Aldous Huxley | |
Travel | F. Tennyson Jesse | FTJ
joined her husband
in Hollywood, where he had been scene-writing for Metro Goldwyn Mayer
; her secretary, Moira Tighe
(Tiger), accompanied her on her transatlantic voyage. Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch. 170, 174-6, 179 |
Employer | Olivia Manning | When it ended she went to work in book production for the Medici Society
at the increased pay of four pounds a week, but she was sacked when the manager found out that she was... |
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