Picturization partners: Elinor Glyn and the Thalberg contract affair
2007; Indiana University Press; Volume: 19; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2979/fil.2007.19.3.319
ISSN1553-3905
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoThis article addresses the relationship of Elinor Glyn, Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg at the time of the formation of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Through the use of newly available archival materials it focuses specifically on the contractual negotiations over motion picture rights to Glyn's stories, negotiations that were of definite significance in establishing the practices of cross-media collaboration that existed between novelists and moviemakers in Hollywood in the 1920s. It also serves to indicate how the economic, artistic and legal processes involved in moviemaking in this period were inextricably connected, and suggests that personal and professional conflicts were often an essential part of the evolving practices of Hollywood in the silent era.
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