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...classic Life of Charles Dickens, Forster presented the public with only the best of the man who was his best friend. Not until 1938, when the Nonesuch Press published over 8,000 intimate items of Dickens' correspondence, did the public learn what it had already guessed-that David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers had been written by a very human being, not by a bearded Apollo in a frockcoat...
...Copperfield at 40. "Success," observed Nathaniel Hawthorne, from his vantage point as American consul in Liverpool, "makes an Englishman intolerable, [but] an Englishman in adversity is a very respectable character." When successful Charles Dickens looked back on the adversities of his childhood, he found them too painful to disclose even to his wife: not until he was almost 40 could he bear to relive them, and to cast them from him into David Copperfield. Father John Dickens, the original of Micawber-"a jovial opportunist . . . who borrowed from anyone foolish enough to make him cash advances"-took twelve-year-old Charles...
...influence of Hollywood on language, women's fashions, home furnishings, etc., is incalculable. When David Copperfield was being ballyhooed, the Cleveland Public Library, which had 500 copies of the book, was cleaned out of it and other Dickens works for weeks. Four U.S. publishing houses sold all their copies of Wuthering Heights while the picture was showing...
Among the scripts are: "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "Boys' Town," "Camille," "The Citadel," "David Copperfield," "Fury," "Good-bye Mr. Chips," "The Great Zeigfeld," "Naughty Marietta," "Pride and Prejudice," "Pygmalion," "The Informer," "Roberta," "Stage Door," "Winterset," "Dead End," "Wuthering Heights," "The Prisoner of Zenda," "A Star is Born." "Midsummer Night's Dream," "The Story of Louis Pasteur," "The Gay Divorcee," and "Waterloo Bridge...
Died. Herbert Mundin, 40, British cinema comedian (Cavalcade, David Copperfield, The Adventures of Robin Hood); of a fractured skull received in an automobile accident; in Van Nuys, Calif...