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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...

To boost her persona as a dignified foreign lady, she called herself Madame Glyn. In 1921 she produced her first film, The Great Moment, which was directed by Sam Wood

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

Austen 's Pride and Prejudice was released in the USA by MGM as a Hollywood film, with screenplay by AH and others.

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...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , with whom EG had signed a contract to write film scripts, produced her film adaptation of her famous romanceThree Weeks.

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

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...

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

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. It won the Pulitzer Prize, headed...