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Classics on screen: studios film literary favorites anew
Hollywood studios push adaptations of Kipling, Scott, Sabatini and more as the trend shifts from modern violence to classics. Dore Schary of MGM previews Kipling projects and a slate including Ivanhoe, Scaramouche, Show Boat, Huckleberry Finn, Quo Vadis, Red Badge of Courage, and Dreiser stories. Paramount, Universal, Warner, Disney, RKO, and Columbia also showcase classic adaptations and new takes on celebrated novels and plays.
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M-G-M
Rudyard Kipling
India
Errol Flynn
Schary
Stewart Granger
Kipling
Sir Walter Scott
Paramount
RKO
Metro
Rafael Sabatini
Scaramouche
Ramon Navarro
Kathryn Grayson
Howard Keel
Joe E. Brown
Mark Twain
Gene Kelly
Rome
Stephen Crane
Theodore Drieser
Universal- International
Dreiser
Carrie
D. A. Doran
Paramount Story
Doran
Joseph Conrad
Warner Brothers
Horatio Hornblower
C. S. Forester
Gregory Peck
Walt Disney
Lewis Carroll
James Barrie
Dumas
Columbia
Lorna Doone
Richard Blackmon
Dick Turpin
Ride
Alfred Noyes
Sir Walter Scotts
Lochinvar