Word: pulham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marquand's last six novels, from The Late George Apley to B.F.'s Daughter, have sold 2,600,000 copies. Three of them were book-club choices (H.M. Pulham, Esquire and So Little Time, Book-of-the-Month; B.F.'s Daughter, Literary Guild) ; three of them made box-office movies. Whatever the critics may say about Point of No Return (Marquand says, "I take a dim view of all serious critics-I don't know any who've had a kind word to say for me, ever since I was a little...
Marquand did make the Harvard Lampoon. Friend Roger Burlingame (Harvard '13) remembers that John would "caricature his classmates in a way that scared us when we got through laughing." When H. M. Pulham, Esquire was published in 1941 (an acid picture of a Har-vardman being smothered by Boston convention), his classmates of a quarter-century before had every right to become thoughtful, if not scared...
...world of J. P. Marquand (So Little Time; H. M. Pulham, Esq.) - as viewed in Perelman parody - "Out of these things, and many more, is woven the warp and wool of my childhood memory: the dappled sunlight on the great lawns of Chowderhead, our summer estate at Newport, the bitter-sweet fragrance of stranded eels at low tide, the alcoholic breath of a clubman wafted on the breeze from Bailey's Beach...
...American Romance (MGM) is a $3,000,000,151-minute, Technicolor "epic" of the U.S'. steel industry. Producer-Director King Vidor, one of Hollywood's abler craftsmen (The Big Parade, H.M. Pulham, Esq.) and most earnest innovators (Hallelujah, Our Daily Bread), took fire 18 years ago with the idea of filming a U.S. history in terms of steel. He eventually ignited Louis B. Mayer, too. But the resulting conflagration is a one-alarm blaze, at best...
Unhappily lacking the guidance of a book of Pulham's caliber, Vidor and his writers made up their own story. Its outline is familiar. Immigrant Steve Dangos (Brian Donlevy) walks the thousand miles from Manhattan to his first job in Minnesota's iron mines...