Word: huxleyism
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...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...Woman's Vengeance. Jessica Tandy and Charles Boyer in Aldous Huxley's story of jealousy and murder (TIME...
...away as the Colorado Rockies. He belongs to the American Legion, takes part in "civic activities" like a good Californian. He studies Chinese philosophy. He even knows movie people. Relations between the Mount Wilson astronomers and Hollywood have never been close,* but Hubble has some friends (Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen, Anita Loos) among the movie colony's intellectual...
...Woman's Vengeance (Universal-International), an original screenplay by Aldous Huxley, ran into more than the customary flurry of title trouble. Huxley worked the script up out of his short story, The Gioconda Smile. The studio, advising him that this title was "too obtuse," asked him to try again. Huxley cheerfully suggested another he has used successfully: Mortal Coils. After a good deal of considering, U-I rejected that one on the grounds that people might mistake it for Brooklynese for "curls" or "girls" (doubtless a goil named Moitle...
...Huxley, beginning to breathe hard, offered the Macbeth tag, Sleep No More. When U-I still wasn't satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...