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William Faulkner and Hollywood

William Faulkner and Hollywood. Faulkner and MGM. April 1932 Faulkner signed a six week contract with MGM. Produced Today We Live (1933) Based on Faulkner’s short story “Turn About” Unproduced Night Bird Manservant The College Window Absolution Flying in the Mail War Birds.

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William Faulkner and Hollywood

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  1. William Faulkner and Hollywood

  2. Faulkner and MGM • April 1932 Faulkner signed a six week contract with MGM. • Produced • Today We Live (1933) • Based on Faulkner’s short story “Turn About” • Unproduced • Night Bird • Manservant • The College Window • Absolution • Flying in the Mail • War Birds

  3. Faulkner and 20th century fox • Met Howard Hawks and became a contract writer. • Collaborated with Howard Hawks on the movie The Road to Glory (1936). • Later Faulkner worked on other movies for Fox • Slave Ship (1937) • Gunga Din (1939)

  4. Faulkner and Warner Brothers • After a slump in novel sales, Faulkner returned to Hollywood. • They made him sign a seven year contract which they claimed was “only a formality.” • Worked on a Hemingway adaptation titled To Have and To Have Not(1944). • First movie to feature Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall together on screen. • Began writing a screenplay adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s detective novel The Big Sleep(1946). • Would also feature Bogart and Bacall

  5. Total Film Adaptations of Faulkner • Intruder in the Dust (1949) • The Tarnished Angels (1957) • The Reivers (1961) • Tomorrow (1972) • Today We Live (1933) • The Story of Temple Drake (1933) • The Long Hot Summer (1958) • The Sound and the Fury (1959) • Sanctuary (1961)

  6. Today We Live (1933) • 1st film adaptation • Based on short story “Turn About” • Only film that he co-wrote • Romanticized film version

  7. Hollywood Sensationalism The Story of Temple Drake The Long Hot Summer

  8. Best Film Adaptations • The Tarnished Angels • Intruder in the Dust • Tomorrow • The Reivers

  9. Screenplays on other works • 1944: To Have and To Have Not • 1943: Northern Pursuit, Air Force, Background To Danger • 1939: Drums Along the Mohawk, GungaDin • 1957: The Tarnished Angels • 1955: Land Of the Pharaohs • 1948: Adventures of Don Juan • 1947: Deep Valley • 1945 -1946: The Big Sleep • 1945 God is My co-Pilot, Mildred Pierce, The Southerner

  10. To Have and Have Not (1944) • Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner • Only film in history to have two Nobel prize winning authors working on the same picture • Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love while on the set

  11. Hayes Code And The Story of Temple Drake • Sanctuary Published as a Modern Library Edition in March 1932 • Faulkner began work in May at Metro-Goldwyn Meyer on his own short story “Turn About” with Howard Hawks • Paramount bought the rights for $6000. • Broke every code except for three- flag desecration, human branding, and sex between the black and white races • Hayes office called Sanctuary “the vilest thing imaginable”

  12. Miscellaneous things Faulkner is credited with • Malcolm Cowley seemingly claims that Faulkner invented “The legend of the South” • Allen Tate claims not legend myth • Indirectly “woman’s movie”, • the genre of Film Noir, • Southern Gothic • The way we view the South in literature and film

  13. Faulkner in Films • Barton Fink is loosely based on William Faulkner life and character • In the movie Raising Arizona, the escaped convicts are the Snopes Brothers • In O Brother Where Art Thou? Vernon T Waldrip is the name of a character referred to in The Wild Palms • Referenced in The Big Lebvwski

  14. Faulkner Today • Hopefully coming soon…. • As I Lay Dying directed by James Franco

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