Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Augustin Daly [and Joseph Howard] dramatized the novel (Worrell Sisters' New York Theater, Nov. 11, 1867), he expanded Beecher's . . . character into a major part for Miss Jennie Worrell, the youngest of the three famed theatrical sisters...
Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox) is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off. A middling-fair argumentative novel, in which Author Laura Z. Hobson suggested a way to fight certain kinds of anti-Semitism in the U.S., has been made into an almost overpowering polemical film...
...screenplay follows the novel closely. Gregory Peck is assigned by a magazine to write a series of articles on antiSemitism. To gather material, he decides to pretend to be a Jew for a few months. In a few weeks he suffers shocks that crack up his love affair, and, almost, his personality. But all ends well with him-if not with the world...
With all its crusading and its stout effort to present a serious social problem to a mass audience, the film as a whole is better than the solution it offers. Like the novel, the movie contends that decent, intelligent people, who know better than to be anti-Semitic but take no militant steps to stamp out the social weed, are chiefly to blame for its hardy growth...
Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...