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Gentle Julia (novel)
''Gentle Julia'' is a 1922 novel by the American writer Booth Tarkington Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitze ....Goble p.453 Film adaptations The novel has twice been adapted: * '' Gentle Julia'', a silent film directed by Rowland V. Lee * '' Gentle Julia'', a sound film directed by John G. Blystone References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * Novels by Booth Tarkington 1922 American novels American novels adapted into films American romance novels {{1920s-romance-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Booth Tarkington
Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1918) and '' Alice Adams'' (1921). He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film. During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. Booth Tarkington served one term in the Indiana House of Representatives, was critical of the advent of automobiles, and set many of his stories in the Midwest. He eventually removed to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he continued his life work even as he suffered a loss of vision. Biography Tarkington was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores. In 2009 Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which is now part of Penguin Random House. In 2019, the official website presents Doubleday as an imprint, not a publisher. History The firm was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday in partnership with Samuel Sidney McClure. McClure had founded the first U.S. newspaper syndicate in 1884 (McClure Syndicate) and the monthly ''McClure's Magazine'' in 1893. One of their first bestsellers was ''The Day's Work'' by Rudyard Kipling, a short story collection that Macmillan published in Britain late in 1898. Other authors published by the company in its early years include W. Somerset M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentle Julia (1923 Film)
''Gentle Julia'' is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel '' Gentle Julia'' by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love. It was produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation, and is considered a lost film. Plot Julia Atwater (Love) is the most popular girl in her Midwestern small town. She has many suitors, but she chooses an older man, Mr. Crum (Elliott). When he takes her back to his home in Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = List of sovereign states, Count ..., she finds out he is married. She leaves him, returning to neighbor Noble Dill (Goodwin). Cast Production Love was cast because she was "the last girl in Hollywood with long hair", although she was unaware of this and got an " Eton crop" haircut before filmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentle Julia (1936 Film)
''Gentle Julia'' is a 1936 American drama film directed by John G. Blystone and starring Jane Withers, Tom Brown and Marsha Hunt.Goble p.453 It is an adaptation of the 1922 novel of the same title by Booth Tarkington. Cast * Jane Withers as Florence Atwater * Tom Brown as Noble Dill * Marsha Hunt as Julia Atwater * Jackie Searl as Herbert Livingston Atwater * Francis Ford as Tubbs, Fish Peddler * George Meeker as Crum * Maurice Murphy as Newland Sanders * Harry Holman as Grandpa Atwater * Myra Marsh as Mrs. Atwater * Hattie McDaniel as Kitty Silvers * Jackie Hughes as Henry Rooter * Eddie Buzard as Wallie Torbin * Frank Sully as Mr. Toms * Mary Alden as Aunt * Lynn Bari as Young Lady Outside Church / Jealous Girl at Dance * Mary Carr as Old Lady at Dance * Harvey Clark as Fat Man with Umbrella * John Dilson as Uncle * Grace Goodall as Aunt * Roger Gray as Policeman * Arthur Hoyt as Mr. Wainwright - Justice of the Peace * Marcia Mae Jone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Booth Tarkington
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
