ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[southendmd]

Anais Nin

The first film to earn an NC-17 rating!

[Meryl]

Oscar Wilde



The film stands as the most famous adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play.

    * Michael Redgrave as John Worthing
    * Michael Denison as Algernon
    * Edith Evans as Lady Bracknell
    * Joan Greenwood as Gwendolen
    * Margaret Rutherford as Miss Prism
    * Miles Malleson as Canon Chasuble
    * Dorothy Tutin as Cecily

[oilgun]

Eugène Le Roy

[southendmd]

Shakespeare

Jean-Luc Godard's adaptation.  A rather strange cast, including Godard himself, Woody Allen, Julie Delpy, Norman Mailer, Molly Ringwald(!), Burgess Meredith and Peter Sellars.

=aside= Gil
You managed to fit in your little Gaspard again, eh?!

[Lynne]

Gabriel García Márquez

...was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982.  He is best known for his novels One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera.

[memento]

Daniel Defoe

[Ellemeno]

Richard Wright




The 1951 version actually starred Richard Wright himself as Bigger Thomas.  An interesting anecdote from IMDb:
When Native Son was made in Argentina in 1950 some of the actors were not from the United States, thus they spoke English with accents not realistic for the characters they portrayed. Dialogue was then dubbed using the voices of local American residents of Buenos Aires. I was then a student at an American high school in BA; they came to the school looking for an American boy and girl to be the voices of Bigger Thomas' brother and sister. I did Vera Thomas' voice and a boy whose Dad was in the Navy did the voice of Bigger's brother. We got off school for two days and as I recall we were paid 300 pesos. Mr. Chanal drove us home afterwards. My big line was, "Eeek, eeek, a rat!". It's a long time ago but I seem to remember that some parts were actually played by non-actor local Americans. After 49 years, I saw this movie again in 1999 and couldn't believe how amateurish it is, but in many ways the making of this movie was Amateur Night, so that makes sense.

[oilgun]

Virginia Woolf

[Lynne]

Henry James

[Ellemeno]

Jack London