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Lilly's Story was translated into German and published in Switzerland in 1952, entitled simply Lilly. This was also the title for the Danish edition which appeared in 1954. Both stories were published in an...

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...

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...

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...

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 romance Three Weeks.

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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...

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...