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Classics move to film as studios chase familiar tales
Hollywood shutters shift toward adapting literary classics across major studios. MGM reactivates Kipling’s Kim with Errol Flynn while others pursue Ivanhoe, Scaramouche, Show Boat and Huck Finn type projects. Paramount, Universal, Warner and Columbia also announce classic adaptations and new takes on Dumas and Scott.
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Rudyard Kipling
Kim
India
Errol Flynn
Schary
Stewart Granger
Kipling
Sir Walter Scott
Paramount
RKO
Metro
Rafael Sabatini
Ramon Navarro
Kathryn Grayson
Howard Keel
Joe E. Brown
Mark Twain
Gene Kelly
D. A. Doran
Paramount Story
Doran
Joseph Conrad
Warner Brothers
Horatio Hornblower
Gregory Peck
Laurette Suez