Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Richard Llewellyn's novel told the sordid story of frustration and poverty in the slums of London, and hit the reader with the message that something must be done. In adapting the novel for Hollywood, Clifford Odets has purposefully subdued the sociology, and it is doubtful whether anyone, including Mr. Odets, actually knows what "None but the Lonely Heart" now means...
Judge Adlow refused to agree that Erskine Caldwell's novel Tragic Ground was an obscene book and dismissed charges against the bookstore clerk who sold it. He went further. He found nothing shocking in a scene in which a female character is allowed to see a man stripped to the waist. "Do you think anybody would be astounded to hear that?" he cried. Then, turning to the detective on the stand, he asked, "Have you read Anthony Adverse?" The detective had not. "That," said the Judge, "is the trouble with the police department. They haven...
Trio (adapted by Dorothy and Howard Baker from Mrs. Baker's novel; produced by Lee Sabinson) had a hard time reaching Broadway - not only because of the theater shortage, but because of censorship fears over its Lesbian theme. For two months nervous theater-owners (i.e., the Shuberts, who control virtually all of Broadway's theaters) kept its housing problems as snarled up as the lives of its characters...
Jack Brunner has planned another "spotlight affair." This time it's a trip to the mountain North Conway, New Hampshire, for a ski weekend. This trip has already shown the sings of Jack's genius for the novel--at least on paper--what with a troupe of well stocked St. Bernards, steam-heated boots...
Marguerite Bayliss, editor of the Horse Show Blue Book and author of The Matriarchy of the American Turf, has written a period (1820s) first novel that outstrips even such feminine rivals in romantic fantasy as Forever Amber and Green Dolphin Street. The Bolinvars, a story of thoroughbred horses, hounds and men, was first published in 1937 in a limited edition, at $15 a copy. This year's voracious appetite for romance brought its revival as a Ladies' Home Journal serial, and in a trade edition with a $10,000 promotion campaign by Publisher Holt. It reads like...