She had a wide circle of friends and contacts both in England and in New Zealand, where she knew everyone in the theatrical world. At her home in Christchurch she entertained visiting celebrities like, in...
Literary responses
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Unusually for a film by unknowns, this found a major Hollywood distributor; it made little profit, but sale of the distribution rights financed the collaborators' next venture.
Long, Robert Emmet. The Films of Merchant Ivory. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
44, 46
The actress Vivien Leigh
, whom...
Textual Production
Clemence Dane
After she finished this adaptation, G. B. Stern
introduced her to Max Beerbohm. At this meeting the idea of casting Ivor Novello
in The Happy Hypocrite first came up, suggested by Beerbohm's niece Viola Tree
Textual Production
F. Tennyson Jesse
FTJ
began this book while she was in Burma in the winters of 1922 and 1923. She completed it in a great burst after three years.
qtd. in
Colenbrander, Joanna. A Portrait of Fryn. A. Deutsch, 1984.
From December 1938: British actress Vivien Leigh starred as Scarlett...
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From December 1938
British actress Vivien Leigh
starred as Scarlett O'Hara in the film Gone With the Wind, based on the bestselling (and Pulitzer-Prize-winning) novel of the same name by Margaret Mitchell
, about the end of...
10 May 1951: Actress Vivien Leigh and actor Laurence Olivier...