Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001.
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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... |
Reception | Jan Struther | 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. Maxtone Graham, Ysenda. The Real Mrs Miniver. John Murray, 2001. 284 |
Reception | E. Arnot Robertson | |
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, 2010. 188, 193 |
Textual Features | Jan Struther | 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. |
Textual Production | Elinor Glyn | |
Textual Production | Jan Struther | 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... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Christina Stead | 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... |
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, 2004. 247 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Textual Production | E. Arnot Robertson | |
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, 1996. 280-1 |
Textual Production | Agatha Christie |
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