📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Single Lady by John Monk Saunders

Summary:

A montage of World War I and Amer­icans in Paris in the 1920s,this novel by John Monk Saunders, author of Wings,is an almost perfect facsimile of the “lost generation” novel—a readable and revealing imitation of the moods of The Sun Also Rises.

Whether early Hemingway or vin­tage Hollywood, Single Lady is certain to surprise and delight readers today. As readers of this new edition will dis­cover, John Monk Saunders, a Rhodes Scholar and a highly successful screen­writer (The Dawn Patrol, A Yank at Oxford)peoples his landscape with memorable figures, and has an extraordinarily good ear for dialogue.

The story is this: five young ex-war­riors of the sky, Shepard Lambert, Bill Talbot, John Swann, Cary Lockwood, and The Washout, unable to let down from the high nervous pitch of flying and fighting, are adrift in Paris after the Armistice, and seemingly bent on self-destruction. They meet Nikki, who joins them in their spectacular journey through the bars of Paris, the cafés of Lisbon, and the bullring of Madrid, and who becomes part of their strangely disordered lives.

Four disillusioned World War I Army buddy veterans roam Paris, drinking and admiring a woman they recently met.

Release Date: August 29, 1931

Release Time: 76 minutes

Director: William Dieterle

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess as Cary Lockwood

David Manners as Shep Lambert

John Mack Brown as Bill Talbot

Helen Chandler as Nikki

Elliott Nugent as Francis

Walter Byron as Frink

Uncredited

Luis Alberni as Spectator at Bullfight

Herbert Bunston as Man on Train

Yola d'Avril as French Party Girl at Cafe

Jay Eaton as Man in Claridge Bar*

George Irving as Military doctor

Wallace MacDonald as Officer at Hospital

John Monk Saunders

John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director. He served in the Air Service during World War I as a flight instructor in Florida, but was never able to secure a posting to France, a disappointment that frustrated him for the remainder of his life. His screenwriting credits include Wings (1927), The Legion of the Condemned (1928), The Last Flight (1931) which he adapted from his own novel Single Lady, and the documentary film Conquest of the Air (UK, 1936), which he also co-directed. He died in 1940.

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📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Bad Girl by Viña Delmar

Summary:

Picture the 1920s in America and the first thing that comes to mind might well be Gatsby gazing at a light, or befeathered flappers hanging out in speakeasies. The glitz and glamour version of the 1920s has captivated our imagination for almost a century but, of course, plenty of women living at the time weren't enjoying a life of cocktail-strewn liberation.

While moral standards were changing for many young people on both sides of the Atlantic, Vina Delmar's 1928 novel Bad Girl suggests from the title onwards that the risks associated with a bad reputation could still be alive and well. A bestseller in its day, the novel explores the realities and risks of the urban 'whirl' taking place around the novel's main protagonist Dot and her life in 1920s Harlem.

Delmar debates the question, in increasingly ironic terms, of what constitutes a 'bad girl' and in doing so presents a cautionary tale about attitudes to class, premarital sex, pregnancy and childbirth in 1920s New York.

A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.

Release Date: September 19, 1931

Release Time: 90 minutes

Director: Frank Borzage

Cast:

Sally Eilers as Dorothy Haley

James Dunn as Eddie Collins

Minna Gombell as Edna Driggs

Uncredited:

Frank Austin as upstairs tenement neighbor

Irving Bacon as expectant father

Frank Darien as Lathrop

Jesse De Vorska as expectant father

Paul Fix as nervous expectant father

Guy Edward Hearn as male nurse

Aggie Herring as seamstress

Claude King as Dr. Burgess

Louis Natheaux as Mr. Thompson

Sarah Padden as Mrs. Gardner

William Pawley as Jim Haley

Charles Sullivan as Mike the prizefighter

William Watson as Floyd

Awards:

5th Academy Awards November 18, 1932

Best Motion Picture - Winfield Sheehan for Fox Film - Nominated

Best Director - Frank Borzage - Won

Best Adapted Screenplay - Edwin J. Burke - Won

Author Bio:

From the LA Times Jan 28, 1990:

Viña Delmar; Adapted ‘The Awful Truth’ for the Screen

Vina Delmar, who as a young woman wrote a series of novels that scandalized the country, making them not only best-sellers but giving her entree to Hollywood, has died in a Pasadena convalescent hospital.

The author of “Bad Girl,” a 1928 Literary Guild selection about premarital sex and pregnancy that later became a play and film, was 86 at her death Jan. 19.

The widow of Eugene Delmar, a writer who became her editor, lived much of her life in Beverly Hills where she later wrote historical novels.

Her screen adaptation of “The Awful Truth,” a play by Arthur Richman, was nominated for an Academy Award. The now cult classic comedy starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunne as a couple going through divorce and an ultimate reconciliation.

Mrs. Delmar’s other works included “Kept Woman,” a collection of short stories called “Loose Ladies” and her historical works--"Beloved,” “The Big Family,” “A Time for Titans” and a domestic novel, “The Marcaboth Women,” a Literary Guild selection in 1951.

Her other work in films included “About Mrs. Leslie,” “Make Way for Tomorrow” and “Cynthia,” an early Elizabeth Taylor movie.

More recently she had written “The Becker Scandal: A Time Remembered” about a 1912 New York City police scandal.

Survivors include four grandchildren.

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