MGM

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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
It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...
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
MGM commissioned AC , following its successful film of her Murder She Said, to write a filmscript for Dickens 's Bleak House.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(20 February 1962: 13
It does not appear that this movie was ever made.
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
In 1921 she produced her first film, The Great Moment, which was directed by Sam Wood
Textual Production Elinor Glyn
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...
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
Austen 's Pride and Prejudice was released in the USA by MGM as a Hollywood film, with screenplay by AH and others.
Parker, Peter, editor. A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. Oxford University Press.
357
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb). http://www.imdb.com.
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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