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Family and Intimate relationships | Edna O'Brien | Ernest was by this time a relatively successful writer, but a controlling and disappointed man who was jealous of her talent. Enright, Anne. “An annoyance to Irish literary males”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 38-9. 38 |
Textual Production | Iris Murdoch | 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... |
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... |
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 |
Performance of text | Aldous Huxley | |
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... |
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 | 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 | |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie | |
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 | 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/. |
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 |
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