Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
Anyone who claimed a strike became a celebrity. Buxom Edith Lacombe, prettiest demoiselle around, said she had six radioactive hectares. The press crowned her "Miss Uranium." She promised to write a novel about Saint-Sylvestre and uranium...
...American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy's classic to a "him-and-her" boulevard romance, made Vronsky "an indisputable frequenter of dancing halls, and . . . [Anna] . . . probably a typist from Hearst's secretariat...
...Mary Britton Miller took stock. She had written five volumes of poems and a rather good novel, In the Days of Thy Youth, a story of a deep attachment between twins. Yet Mary Miller had never produced a sound critical success, had never come close to authoring a bestseller. Was she, after all, just another New England spinster with literary inclinations...
Elizabeth Taylor's best novel is still her third, A View of the Harbour, in which she managed a greater range of characters and moods with more solidity of style...