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Edward Everett Horton, Robert Montgomery, and Claude Rains in “ Here Comes Mr. Jordan. Elsa L anchester, Ida Lupino, Edith Barrett, and 1 sob el EI so m in " Ladies in Retirement Right : Charles Dingle, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, and Carl Benton Reid in" The Little Foxes.” Big, Pictures from Stage Successes J^^ANY of the biggest screen successes have been made from stage plays. Some people in the business might say that the big majority of cinema box office winners were films adapted from stage plays, but 1 wouldn’t go so far as that. There are the modern best-sellers to consider and also famous novels written by celebrated authors long since dead. And in the past two or three years we have had some really fine films made from original stories specially written for the screen—notably " Down Went McGinty,” and “ Sullivan’s Travels,” by Preston Sturges, a very brilliant writer, who is also a number one film director. But undoubtedly the stage has contributed very largely to the success of the screen, not only by plays but also by players. In America, Katharine Hepburn :s an outstanding example of this. She left the screen to return to the stage, and people thought she had said good-bye to film work, for the parting was not by any means a farewell with flowers on either side. Katharine Hepburn made a triumphant hit (she had been a successful stage actress before going into pictures), but she did more than gain acting success. She bought the play—“ Phila- delphia Story"—in which she starred. It was a sensational success and big film people in Hollywood wanted to buy the screen rights. It is an old story how the deal was -done. Miss Hepburn agreed to sell the play, but only on condition she played the lead in it, as she had done in the stage success. She got her way and made even a bigger success in the film than she had done in the play—from the box office standpoint. So far as British films are concerned, the stage has almost dominated the screen since the war. 125