Here's a cool story I discovered while doing a little research. It's seems the writer of the novel this week's movie blog was based on was married to a US Naval officer. His name was Ellis Spencer Stone. And, on Dec. 7th 1941, was the Commander of the aircraft carrier fleet at Pearl Harbor. Yes, that's what they say. His wife and author of three novels that were adapted for the silver screen is Grace Zaring Stone. Yea, this week's blog has turned into a double feature plus one recommendation based on a writer...
The older novel was published in 1930 and the film was released in the US in 1933. Their titles are The Bitter Tea of General Zen. A romance story told around the Chinese civil war. It stars Barbara Stanyck as an American missionary...
The second part of the double feature recommendation, and using her pen name Ethel Vance, was adapted from the novel Escape published in 1939. In the movie Robert Taylor plays an American who travels to pre-WWII Germany to try and find his mother. Not having much luck. It was released in 1940...
As Ethel Vance again, the plus one stars the great Bette Davis. She is a poet who falls in love with a war hero. It's being mentioned because Bette has done no bad movies. It's worth watching once for that alone. Winter Meeting was released in 1948 and the novel was published in 1946...
Did you notice the war theme in all three?
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