film Brideshead Revisited was based on who's novel penned in 1945?
"The Loved One The Loved One: An Anglo-American Tragedy (1948) is a short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry. ""The Loved One"" was written as a result of Evelyn Waugh's trip to Hollywood in February and March 1947. MGM was interested in adapting Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945). Waugh had written that, ""I should not think six Americans will understand it"" and was baffled and even angered by its popularity in America, referring to it as ""my humiliating success in [the] U.S.A."""
"in Evelyn Waugh's classic novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945): The story starts in London right after World War I. The characters have to deal with the lack of values and stability brought by the terrible conflict. Everybody is lost but at the same time looking for happiness while everything is going out of control in a ridiculous and comic way. In this book, Huxley seems to have been the first author to use the term vomitorium in context of a modern (and foul) colloquial definition it retains today, in the sentence: ""There strode in, like a Goth into the elegant marble"
"report, ""Church and State in Liberated Croatia"". After spells in Dubrovnik and Rome, Waugh returned to London on 15 March 1945 to present his report, which the Foreign Office suppressed to maintain good relations with Tito, now the leader of communist Yugoslavia. ""Brideshead Revisited"" was published in London in May 1945. Waugh had been convinced of the book's qualities, ""my first novel rather than my last"". It was a tremendous success, bringing its author fame, fortune and literary status. Happy though he was with this outcome, Waugh's principal concern as the war ended was the fate of the large populations"
"Sir John Soane's Museum in London and The Royal Oak Foundation Annual Lecture Tour in the United States in 2009. She has lectured at Oxford University (Harris Manchester College), Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Oxford Literary Festival. Jane Mulvagh Jane Mulvagh is an Irish-born journalist and social historian, specialising in British history. She is best known for her history of Madresfield Court, the English country house upon which Evelyn Waugh based his novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". Mulvagh has Irish roots and was educated at an English convent before going up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History. Her early interest in"
"100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 45 on the BBC survey The Big Read. In 2005, it was chosen by ""Time"" magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. In 2009, ""Newsweek"" magazine listed it as one of the 100 best books of world literature. In 1981 ""Brideshead Revisited"" was adapted as an 11-episode TV serial, produced by Granada Television and aired on ITV, starring Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Lord Sebastian Flyte. The bulk of the serial was"
"The Bridesmaid The Bridesmaid is a novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, first published in 1989. It is generally considered a fan-favourite, and was adapted into an acclaimed 2004 film by Claude Chabrol (who had previous adapted Rendell's earlier novel ""A Judgement in Stone"", with great success). The novel's protagonist is Philip Wardman, a relatively normal young man (unusually so for traditional Rendell protagonists), whose only particularly strong feeling is that he hates violence. Philip lives at home with his mother and sister, and his feminine ideal is exemplified by a beautiful statue of Flora, a nymph, in their garden."
"Evelyn Waugh Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh (; 28 October 1903 – 10 April 1966) was an English writer of novels, biographies, and travel books, and he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires ""Decline and Fall"" (1928) and ""A Handful of Dust"" (1934), the novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945), and the Second World War trilogy ""Sword of Honour"" (1952–61). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century. Waugh was the son of a publisher, educated at Lancing College and then at"
"She died in Santa Rosa, California in 1985. Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States. Gladys Adshead was best known for her ""Brownie"" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by"
"Jane Mulvagh Jane Mulvagh is an Irish-born journalist and social historian, specialising in British history. She is best known for her history of Madresfield Court, the English country house upon which Evelyn Waugh based his novel ""Brideshead Revisited"". Mulvagh has Irish roots and was educated at an English convent before going up to Girton College, Cambridge, to read History. Her early interest in fashion history led to eight years at ""Vogue"", as a fashion historian and features writer. Mulvagh completed the ""Vogue History of Twentieth Century Fashion"" (Viking Penguin) in 1988. She left ""Vogue"" the following year and subsequently wrote"
"""Becoming Jane"" was released. ""The Washington Times"" stated that Jarrold's direction ""has made a witty, beautiful film. His technical achievement is no small matter, with nice, long tracking shots and clever focus tricks."" The following year, Jarrold directed the first film adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's iconic story ""Brideshead Revisited"", ""one of the great English novels which has never been filmed,"" according to producer Kevin Loader. It starred Hayley Atwell, Matthew Goode, Emma Thompson, and Michael Gambon. About the novel's status as an unchangeable classic, Jarrold stated that ""there are people who are obsessive and obviously that's going to be daunting"
"The Unseen (1945 film) The Unseen is a 1945 America film noir mystery film directed by Lewis Allen and starring Joel McCrea. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording (Loren L. Ryder), and is based on the novel ""Midnight House"" (US title: ""Her Heart in Her Throat"") by Ethel Lina White. The film was Paramount's follow-up to ""The Uninvited"" (1944). Raymond Chandler was one of the writers of the script. At 11 Crescent Drive in a New England village, an unseen killer strangles a woman. Young Barnaby Fielding witnesses this from his window at 10 Crescent"
"The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film) The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero. ""The Enchanted Cottage"" was first adapted for the silent screen in 1924, with Richard Barthelmess and May McAvoy as the newlyweds. A third adaptation appeared in 2016. When socialite Army Air Force pilot Oliver Bradford (Robert Young) is disfigured by war wounds, he hides from his family, including his mother (Spring Byington) and his fiancée (Hillary Brooke) and decides to live in seclusion in the seaside New England cottage"
"Spellbound (1945 film) Spellbound is a 1945 American film noir psychological mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It tells the story of the new head of a mental asylum who turns out not to be what he claims. The film stars Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov and Leo G. Carroll. It is an adaptation by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht of the novel ""The House of Dr. Edwardes"" (1927) by Hilary Saint George Saunders and John Palmer. Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychoanalyst at Green Manors, a therapeutic community mental hospital in Vermont. She is perceived"
"to a weeping Bess that he will come back. Houdini (film) Houdini is a 1953 American Technicolor film biography from Paramount Pictures, produced by George Pal and Berman Swarttz, directed by George Marshall, that stars Tony Curtis and his then-wife Janet Leigh. The film's screenplay, based upon the life of magician and escape artist Harry Houdini, is by Philip Yordan, based on the book ""Houdini"" by Harold Kellock. The film's music score was by Roy Webb and the cinematography by Ernest Laszlo. The art direction was by Albert Nozaki and Hal Pereira and the costume design by Edith Head. The"
"Hugh Lygon Hugh Patrick Lygon (2 November 1904 – 19 August 1936 Rothenburg, Bavaria) was the second son of William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, and is often believed to be the inspiration for Lord Sebastian Flyte in Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"". He was a friend of Waugh's at Oxford (A. L. Rowse believed the two to be lovers), where both were members of the Hypocrites' Club (Lygon was also the president of the club), along with their contemporary Murray Andrew McLean and the Plunket Greene's brothers, Richard and David. David Plunket Greene was a good friend of Hugh Lygon. He"
"eerie tableaux of dead Iraqi soldiers who'd been killed so quickly where they sat so as to appear to have been deliberately posed, like store-display mannequins, in their final moments of life. The novel was adapted into a 2005 feature film starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, and Peter Sarsgaard. The screenplay was written by William Broyles Jr. and directed by Sam Mendes. Reviews were generally positive. """" is the sequel to the 2005 film, followed by """". Jarhead (book) Jarhead is a 2003 Gulf War memoir by author and former U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford. After leaving military service, the author"
"1944. He was mildly disparaging of the novel, stating; ""It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster – the period of soya beans and Basic English – and in consequence the book is infused with a kind of gluttony, for food and wine, for the splendours of the recent past, and for rhetorical and ornamental language which now, with a full stomach, I find distasteful."" In the United States, ""Brideshead Revisited"" was the Book of the Month Club selection for January 1946. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked ""Brideshead Revisited"" No. 80 on its list of the"
"Mildred Pierce Mildred Pierce is a 1941 hardboiled novel by James M. Cain. It was made into an Academy Award–winning film of the same name in 1945, starring Joan Crawford, and a 2011 Emmy Award–winning miniseries of the same name, starring Kate Winslet. Set in Glendale, California, in the 1930s, the book is the story of a middle-class housewife, Mildred Pierce, and her attempts to maintain her family's social position during the Great Depression. Mildred separates from Bert, her unemployed husband, and sets out to support herself and her children. After a difficult search she finds a job as a"
"Gladys Lucy Adshead Gladys Lucy Adshead (April 25, 1896–1985) was a British-born writer of children's books. Adshead was born in Manchester, England, to James Frederick and Bertha Wilson Groome Adshead. She was educated at Froebel Educational Institute, a teacher training college. She became a teacher and headmistress in private schools in England, where she was a member of the Royal Society of Teachers, and later in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Illinois in the United States. Gladys Adshead was best known for her ""Brownie"" books, the first of which was published in 1938 by Oxford University Press and entitled ""Brownies - Hush""!."
"intensive care. He married Georgina Simpson of the Simpsons of Piccadilly department store family. Their daughter Amy is a god-daughter of Princess Anne, The Princess Royal. Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV"
"Castle Howard Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, north of York. It is a private residence, and has been the home of the Carlisle branch of the Howard family for more than 300 years. Castle Howard is not a true castle, but this term is also used for English country houses erected on the site of a former military castle. It is familiar to television and film audiences as the fictional ""Brideshead"", both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's ""Brideshead Revisited"" and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema. Today, it is part of the"
"Anthony Andrews Anthony Colin Gerald Andrews (born 12 January 1948) is an English actor best known for his role as Lord Sebastian Flyte in the 1981 ITV miniseries ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1981). He is also known for playing the title roles in ""Ivanhoe"", ""Operation Daybreak"" and ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", and for portraying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in ""The King's Speech"" (2010). For his performance in ""Brideshead Revisited"" Andrews won a Golden Globe and BAFTA TV Award, as well as being nominated for an Emmy. Andrews was born in London, the son of Geraldine Agnes (""née"" Cooper), a dancer, and Stanley Thomas"
"unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself"". This is achieved by an examination of the Roman Catholic aristocratic Flyte family as seen by the narrator, Charles Ryder. In various letters, Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his ""magnum opus""; however, in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene stating ""I re-read ""Brideshead Revisited"" and was appalled."" In Waugh's preface to his revised edition of ""Brideshead"" (1959) the author explained the circumstances in which the novel was written, following a minor parachute accident in the six months between December 1943 and June"
"Madresfield Court Madresfield Court, Madresfield, near Malvern, Worcestershire is a country house. The house has been the home of the Lygon family for nearly six centuries, and has passed only by inheritance since the 12th century. The present building is largely a Victorian reconstruction, although the origins of the present house are from the 16th century, and the site has been occupied since Anglo-Saxon times. The novelist Evelyn Waugh was a frequent visitor to the house and based the family of Marchmain, who are central to his novel Brideshead Revisited, on the Lygons. Surrounded by a moat, the Court is"
"Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Richard Halliburton, Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Baron Philippe de Rothschild, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Princess Aspasia of Greece, Aristotle Onassis, Barbara Hutton, Peggy Guggenheim, Joel Sumerlin, Tareq Salahi, George Clooney, Sarah Weintritt, Silvio Barta and Woody Allen.. The bar was also briefly mentioned in the second and subsequent editions of Evelyn Waugh's novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (in the first edition Waugh simply called the bar ""the English bar"") as a frequent haunt of principal characters Charles Ryder and Sebastian Flyte during their time in Venice. Harry's Bar is home of the Bellini and Carpaccio. Harry's Bar is also famous"
"... that endured to the end of his career"". Despite occasional reversions to his former style, in general Waugh's post-war fiction aspired to a more serious purpose. In an essay published in ""Life"" magazine in April 1946, he wrote: ""In my future books there will be two things to make them unpopular: a preoccupation with style and the attempt to represent man more fully, which, to me, means only one thing, man in his relation to God."" The commercial success of ""Brideshead Revisited"", published in 1945, provided Waugh with the financial means to pursue his writing career in a leisurely"
"Alastair Hugh Graham Alastair Hugh Graham (27 June 1904 – 1982) was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend of Evelyn Waugh, and, according to Waugh's letters, one of his ""romances"". He is, together with Hugh Lygon, considered the main inspiration for Sebastian Flyte in ""Brideshead Revisited"". Alastair Hugh Graham was born on 27 June 1904. His mother was a cotton heiress from Savannah, Georgia, Jessie Low, while his father, Hugh Graham (1860–1921), was a British landed aristocrat of the Graham baronets, the younger son of Sir Frederick Ulric Graham, of Netherby, 3d Baronet (1820–1888) and Lady"
"Bedside Manner (film) Bedside Manner is a 1945 American film directed by Andrew L. Stone, based on a 1944 ""Saturday Evening Post"" story of the same name by Robert Carson. The film was re-released in 1950 under the title Her Favorite Patient. Plastic surgeon Dr. Hedy Fredericks (Ruth Hussey) picks up three hitchhiking Marines, Tommy (Joel McGinnis), Dick (John James), and Harry (Frank Jenks) (who all have Smith as their last name), while driving home to Chicago. On the way she makes a quick stop in her birth town of Blithewood, and is appalled by the way the town has"
"The Copperhead The Copperhead is a 1920 American silent film historical drama based on a novel by Frederick Landis and a play by Augustus Thomas. The star of this film is Lionel Barrymore who won acclaim in the play version on Broadway, and who appeared in the play and this film with his first wife Doris Rankin. A print of this film has been screened in recent years. At the beginning of the American Civil War Milt Shanks, who owns a farm in Illinois, is asked by President Abraham Lincoln to join the Copperheads, a clandestine quasi-political organization whose sentiments"
"Bewitched (1945 film) Bewitched is a 1945 American film noir directed and written by Arch Oboler. The drama features Phyllis Thaxter and Edmund Gwenn. On the eve of her engagement, a demure young woman becomes the victim of a split personality and murders her fiance. When the film was first released, the staff at ""Variety"" magazine liked the film, and wrote, ""Produced on a low budget, with a sterling cast of actors' actors, this picture just oozes with class because of the excellent adaptation and direction it has been given by radio's Arch Oboler, author of the story, ""Alter Ego"","
", with the strapline ""Cagney's Mightiest"" adding to her characterization. Blood on the Sun Blood on the Sun is a 1945 American drama romantic thriller war film directed by Frank Lloyd starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney. The film is based on a fictional history behind the Tanaka Memorial document. The film won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for a Black & White (Wiard Ihnen, A. Roland Fields) film in 1945. A computer-colorized version of the film was created in 1993. In 1973, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not"
"Mildred Pierce (film) Mildred Pierce is a 1945 American film noir crime-drama directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Joan Crawford, Jack Carson and Zachary Scott, also featuring Eve Arden, Ann Blyth and Bruce Bennett. Based on a novel by James M. Cain, this was Crawford's first starring film for Warner Bros. after leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1996, ""Mildred Pierce"" was deemed ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"" and selected for preservation in the United States Library of Congress National Film Registry. Monte Beragon (Zachary Scott), the second husband of Mildred Pierce (Joan Crawford),"
"seven months. Early into the period, ITV decided two-hour episodes were too lengthy, and Sturridge was forced to restructure the entire serial, beginning and ending it with expanded episodes that would bookend nine episodes running slightly less than an hour each. Brideshead Revisited (TV serial) Brideshead Revisited is a 1981 British television serial starring Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews. It was produced by Granada Television for broadcast by the ITV network. Most of the serial was directed by Charles Sturridge; a few sequences were directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The serial is an adaptation of the novel ""Brideshead Revisited"" (1945) by"