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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...

Ernest was by this time a relatively successful writer, but a controlling and disappointed man who was jealous of her talent. He is best known for The Plymouth Adventure, The Voyage of the Mayflower...

At one time HHR planned to convert her three-novel series into a set of four, to follow the fortunes of Richard Mahony's son Cuffy (a character who, despite his sex, has much of his author...

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...

MGM wrote to the BBC to complain of the review that EAR had broadcast of the film The Green Years.

On 27 September 1946 MGM complained to the BBC about an allegedly hostile review by EAR . This led her to a court battle. The High Court awarded her £1,500 in libel damages, but on...

After her arrival in New York Stead spent several months reading unsolicited manuscripts without payment for New Masses (a Marxist publication edited by her friend Michael Gold ) because she wanted to see behind the...

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...

JS sold the film rights in her Mrs. Miniver, book version, to MGM for $32,000, surrendering control of the script to them.

Mrs. Miniver, the MGM movie loosely based on JS 's book of the same title, had its premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York, USA. A million people saw it in...

At the time of her recovery she and Dolf were broke, or as she termed it one jump ahead of the sheriff. The $13,000 that she received in damages from MGM solved that crisis...

This was ironic: she had recently been in litigation with the film studio MGM for making an unauthorised film sequel to her famous Mrs. Miniver, in which they made the heroine die of cancer.

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...

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.

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.