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Freitag, 4. Januar 2019

William Faulkner Goes to Hollywood / Matthew Wills. In: JSTOR Daily January 3, 2019

In 1942, a brief thawing of the stormy relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces in World War II, inspired Hollywood to make a picture about the life of the Frenchman. Screenwriter William Faulkner was hired to write it.
Yes, that William Faulkner. Seven years from his Nobel Prize in literature, Faulkner was, as Faulkner scholar Robert W. Hamblin described him, “in dire financial need and unable to secure a desired military appointment.” Going Hollywood worked: Warner Brothers hired Faulkner in July of 1942 at $300 per week. His first gig was the Charles de Gaulle story.
By turn called Journey To Dawn, Journey To Hope, Free France, and finally the The De Gaulle Story, the outline, treatment, revised treatment, full-length screenplay, and finally revised screenplay evolved over five months of work. Ultimately, Faulkner produced 1,200 pages of manuscript. ... [mehr] https://daily.jstor.org/william-faulkner-goes-to-hollywood/

The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Faulkner and Film (Fall 2000/Spring 2001). pp. 79-86

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