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Books Into Films
There follows a reprint from the "Books into Films" column of the Publishers' Weekly, tuho liave kindly permitted us to reprint it.
By Paul S. Nathan
STRANGE as it seems, the picture companies are buying books. Though film pursestrings are being pulled tighter than the laces in grandma's corset, it still takes stories to turn out movies.
Fifty thousand dollars, if report can be trusted, has passed from United California Productions to I. A. R. Wylie for her novel Ho, the Fair Wind, published by Random after Ladies' Home Journal serialization in '45. Selwyn Jepson's Outrun the Constable, a Collier's serial and Doubleday title last year, has been acquired by Transatlantic Pictures, the Alfred Hitchcock indie for approximately $12,000.
Blackjack, a melodrama of Oklahoma in the 1920's by Joseph E. Kelleam (Sloane) has just gone to Bruce Cabot and Ray Ryan for an undisclosed amount. Trans World Films has bought English-language rights to Dona Barbara by Venezuelan President Romulo Gallegos a visitor to this country a few weeks ago.
Warners has laid out $5000 for an option on Stuart Engstrand's Beyond the Forest and if this Creative Age novel scheduled for September, hits the bestseller lists, Mr. Engstrand stands to make a nice piece of change. The contract includes an escalator clause which, if enough copies of the book are sold, could bring the author close to $100,000.
Another deal involves New York Confidential, forthcoming Ziff-Davis book by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer. Marathon Pictures, low-budget outfit, is said to have paid $5,000 down against a percentage of the film's gross.
This Corner's reference in the July 10 issue to the scant number of movies on Protestant themes apparently touched a sensitive spot. Among those who felt impelled to speak up was one lady who wrote in to ask why I hadn't mentioned the
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The
Screen Writer
Vol. 4, No. 3
SEPTEMBER, 1948
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Leonard Spigelgass, Editor
Marvin Borowsky James Gunn Edmund Hartmann Lionel Houser
John Larkin
Stephen Longstreet
Sloan Nibley
James Webb
Karl Kamb Leonard Hoffman
George Wells
BUSINESS COMMITTEE Frank Cavett, Chairman
Dalton Reymond
Elizabeth Meehan Martin Rackin
Paul Gangelin, Managing Editor
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL: ./ Report to the Membership
JOHN DALES, JR.: SAG Contract Negotiations
F. HUGH HERBERT: ./ Matter of Time, a Short Story
KEITH SWARD: Boy and Girl Meet Neurosis
LEONARD SPIGELGASS: After Lunch, a Short Story
HUGH MAC MULLAN: Another Vicious Circle
MILTON KRIMS: Iron Curtain Diary
E. EDWIN MORAN: "Cliches — I Love You"
Screen Credits
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11 12 14 27 31
PAUL S. NATHAN: Books into Films
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