Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the famous novel...
None of the founders of modern art has been richer game for the journalist than Vincent van Gogh. Within the past two years two lives of him have been best sellers, one a novel, Lust for Life by Irving Stone,* another a scholarly biography by able Art Critic Julius Meier-Graefe (TIME...
...cinemaddicts, was responsible for the sensible suggestion that the adults in La Maternelle should wear no makeup. Otherwise, credit for dialog, direction and, to a large extent, photography goes to Jean Benoit-Lévy, who adapted the picture from Léon Frapié's novel. Son of a toy manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected his cast from slum children who had never acted or even learned to recite. Paulette Elambert, a rather ugly little girl with a big mouth...
Based on Hector Malot's well-known novel of the same name, the film has its setting in France and England. With a mixture of sincerity and sentimentality it portrays the unfortunate boyhood of a kidnapped and deserted foundling who passes through a varied series of melodramatic experiences until he is finally reunited with his mother by an unusual coincidence...
...performance it is impossible not to be completely immersed in the production, but the cooling effect of retrospect shows that merit of the offering lies perhaps more in the work of the two leading ladies than in the virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...