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WILLIAM FAULKNER AND HOLLYWOOD
April 1932 Faulkner signed a six week contract with MGM.
Produced Today We Live (1933)
Based on Faulkner’s short story “Turn About”
Unproduced Night Bird Manservant The College Window Absolution Flying in the Mail War Birds
FAULKNER AND MGM
Met Howard Hawks and became a contract writer.
Collaborated with Howard Hawks on the movie The Road to Glory (1936).
Later Faulkner worked on other movies for Fox Slave Ship (1937) Gunga Din (1939)
FAULKNER AND 20TH CENTURY FOX
After a slump in novel sales, Faulkner returned to Hollywood.
They made him sign a seven year contract which they claimed was “only a formality.”
Worked on a Hemingway adaptation titled To Have and To Have Not (1944). First movie to feature Humphrey
Bogart and Lauren Bacall together on screen.
Began writing a screenplay adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s detective novel The Big Sleep (1946). Would also feature Bogart and
Bacall
FAULKNER AND WARNER BROTHERS
Today We Live (1933)
The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Sanctuary (1961)
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
The Reivers (1961)
Tomorrow (1972)
TOTAL FILM ADAPTATIONS OF FAULKNER
1st film adaptation
Based on short story “Turn About”
Only film that he co-wrote
Romanticized film version
TODAY WE LIVE (1933)
The Story of Temple Drake The Long Hot Summer
HOLLYWOOD SENSATIONALISM
The Tarnished Angels
Intruder in the Dust
TomorrowThe Reivers
BEST FILM ADAPTATIONS
1957: The Tarnished Angels
1955: Land Of the Pharaohs
1948: Adventures of Don Juan
1947: Deep Valley1945 -1946: The Big
Sleep1945 God is My co-
Pilot, Mildred Pierce, The Southerner
1944: To Have and To Have Not
1943: Northern Pursuit, Air Force, Background To Danger
1939: Drums Along the Mohawk, Gunga Din
SCREENPLAYS ON OTHER WORKS
Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
Only film in history to have two Nobel prize winning authors working on the same picture
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall fell in love while on the set
TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944)
Sanctuary Published as a Modern Library Edition in March 1932
Faulkner began work in May at Metro-Goldwyn Meyer on his own short story “Turn About” with Howard Hawks
Paramount bought the rights for $6000.Broke every code except for three- flag
desecration, human branding, and sex between the black and white races
Hayes offi ce called Sanctuary “the vilest thing imaginable”
HAYES CODE AND THE STORY OF TEMPLE DRAKE
Malcolm Cowley seemingly claims that Faulkner invented “The legend of the South”
Allen Tate claims not legend mythIndirectly “woman’s movie”, the genre of Film Noir, Southern GothicThe way we view the South in literature
and film
MISCELLANEOUS THINGS FAULKNER IS CREDITED WITH
Barton Fink is loosely based on William Faulkner life and character
In the movie Raising Arizona, the escaped convicts are the Snopes Brothers
In O Brother Where Art Thou? Vernon T Waldrip is the name of a character referred to in The Wild Palms
Referenced in The Big Lebvwski
FAULKNER IN FILMS
Hopefully coming soon….As I Lay Dying directed by James Franco
FAULKNER TODAY