Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grey (Gainsborough-Universal) is a heavily romantic, British-made melodrama tailored for the matinee trade. Adapted from a sugary, swashbuckling novel by the late Lady Eleanor Smith, it is a Regency costume piece containing all the time-tested materials: a gypsy fortuneteller; a scowling, black-browed villain; a gushy diary kept by a doe-eyed girl named Clarissa who munches candied violets; a wavy-haired hero with beautiful strong teeth; a fire-breathing adventuress who dotes on discord and low-cut gowns...
...cornered by a critic from a Little Magazine. The critic thought that the Devil looked too forceful for an intellectual, too thoughtful for a book publisher, and decided at first that he must be somebody high up in cinema. So he began to tell him about the esoteric first novel he hoped to sell to Hollywood...
...critic groaned. "Now The Gauntlet" said the Devil, warming up, "is about Baptists. Who but me, with my intense interest in religion, would ever read about Baptists except in a novel? This one takes you right into a Baptist seminary, shows you the callowness, the shallowness, the dingy personal problems of the young men who will become fishers of souls. It takes you into a small Baptist church in a small Missouri town, shows you the political shenanigans, the scandalous gossip, the social going-over every minister and his wife have to take. Even I learned something from...
...suppose," said the critic wearily, snatching a highball from a passing waiter, "that is why the novel is called The Gauntlet...
...better first novel was Adria Locke Langley's A Lion Is in the Streets. It described the political and love life of a Huey Longish character who rose from pack peddler to total boss of Magnolia State. For A Lion, hungry M-G-M paid $250,000-the highest price on record for a novel's movie rights...