Descriptions
  Above
Suspicion (movie tie-in ed. 1943,
Triangle Books; 1945 paperback) Helen MacInnes
Movie
Tie-In Description:
333 pages. Movie tie-in edition has photos from the film on the front cover.
 All
the Brothers Were Valiant (originally
published 1919. US movie tie-in edition with new movie title, 1928, shown
at left)
Ben Ames Williams
   The
Best of Everything (US HC 1958, Simon &
Schuster; UK HC 1959, The Book Club; 1959 US PB, Pocket Books ) Rona Jaffe
Description:
US HC 437 pages. (That's author Jaffe herself on the cover in front of NYC's
Rockefeller Center.) UK HC 372 pages. The book was completed in 5 months
and 5 days and 20th-Century Fox bought it before it was even edited. It made
the NY Times best-seller list on 9/21/58, two weeks after publication.
Sample
Text:
   Daisy
Kenyon: An Historical
Novel 1940 - 1942 (HC:
1945,
Doubleday, Doran & Co. PB: 1947, Pocket Books) Elizabeth Janeway
Description:
277 pages. From the jacket: "Three people, Daisy Kenyon, Dan O'Mara,
and Peter Lapham, are trying to find happiness and a way of life in the confused
world of this decade...Their story is told against a political and economic
background where people and events that have become familiar pass in review
while Daisy struggles to rationalize problems brought about by her attachment
to the two men."
 Dream
of Love
  Flamingo
Road
(1942, Putnam's) Robert
Wilder
 The
Gorgeous Hussy Samuel
Hopkins Adams
 Grand
Hotel (1929
German novel "Menschen Im Hotel"; published in U.S. as Grand Hotel in 1931 by Doubleday,
Doran; US novelization 1932 by Grosset & Dunlap; US PB 1958, Dell) Vicki
Baum
Description:
The 1929 novel was the basis for the 1931 play and the 1932 movie.
  Humoresque
and Other Stories (originally
published 1919; US movie tie-in edition, 1947) Fannie Hurst
Johnny
Guitar (HC 1953 Simon & Schuster;
PB 1954 Pocket Books; French film tie-in 1960) Roy Chanslor
Description:
US PB: 198 pages with brief intro by Joan accompanied by a line drawing of
her (see photo above).
Sample
Text:
 The
Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937
movie tie-in novelization)
  Letty
Lynton (1931, Heinemann,
NY) Marie
Belloc Lowndes
Mildred
Pierce (orig. pub. date 1941) James M. Cain
Links:
The Complete
Review MP page.
 Mildred Pierce
screenplay (1980, Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Edited with an Introduction by Albert J. LaValley
Description:
"A product of
the Warner Brothers Film Library of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this
book offers students, researchers, and aficionados insights into individual
films that have never before been possible. This screenplay is the final
shooting version including revisions made during production."
 Montana
Moon (movie tie-in edition, 1930)
Donald
H. Clewton
  
Not
Too Narrow, Not Too Deep (US
HC
1936, Simon; UK HC, Cassell; US PB 1950, Popular Library) Richard Sale
Description: This
is the novel that was the basis for the '40 film Strange Cargo.
1st PB
edition is Popular Library #247.
 Old
Clothes (1925, Jacobsen-Hodgkinson)
Willard Mack
Description:
Movie tie-in. Photos from the film on the front and back covers, with 3 b/w
photos inside.
 Our
Blushing Brides
(1933, Jules Tallandier--France)
Simone
Albinet
Description:
96-page movie tie-in, with 30 photos inside.
  Our Dancing Daughters (1928 movie tie-in novelization, Grosset & Dunlap)
Winifred Van Duzer
Description: 211 pages. Based on the photoplay by Josephine Lovett and
illustrated with scenes from the MGM Picture.
Sample
Text:
She stood close to the window, black-fringed gray eyes
through which laughter often shimmered as light flutters in deep water now wide
with delighted awe, gay lips parted, flattening her nose against the pane as a
very little girl might have done.
Not that Diana Rand was not little. The distance from the sharp edges of
the highest heels ever worn on Main street to the topmost curl at the crown of
her arrogant young head measured exactly five feet. But when anyone ventured to
address her as "Half Pint", "Small Change", or "Demi Tasse" she was likely to
toss back "Be yourself! I'm nineteen, I guess!" Then she would flash her gamin
grin and rush out to have another lift put on the high heels.
 Paid
(movie tie-in novelization, 1930)
 The
Queen Bee (1949) Edna Lee
Description: 220 pgs. Originally
serialized in 3 parts in Woman's Home Companion magazine, May - July 1949.
Sample Text:
 Rain and Other Stories (1932, Grosset & Dunlap)
W.
Somerset Maugham
Description: (Photoplay edition) 302 pages. Originally published under the title "The
Trembling of a Leaf" in 1921. 5.75" x 8" hardcover (orange cloth on boards)
with dust jacket. The photoplay edition has a photo of
Crawford on the back of the jacket and end-paper montages of b&w stills
from the film.
 The
Shining Hour (Spanish
movie tie-in novelization)
   The
Story of Esther Costello
(1953, Knopf in US. 1953, Cassell in UK.) Nicholas
Monsarrat
Description:
Sample
Text:
 Sudden
Fear (Paris: Ditis,
1952. Movie tie-in.)
9.5 | JP¥ 1817]
   What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(Rinehart and Co. HC, 1960; Avon PB movie tie-in 1962)
Henry
Farrell
Description: HC has
245 pages.
Sample Text:
Blanche
sat perfectly still, hunched slightly forward, staring after her. A wash of
silence seemed to break over the house, causing the shadows to stir and pulse
around her. Slowly, she reached out a hand to the wheel of her chair, thinking
that if she went to the window and pulled back the drapes she would be able to
see the night and the stars. And then, suddenly, she stopped, her body gripped
with shock as the silence was shattered by the thunderous slam of Jane's door at
the end of the hall. The whole house seemed to shout back in anger.
For a long moment Blanche was perfectly motionless, listening tensely for
the silence to come back into the house, waiting for the thunderous slam of the
door to stop reverberating against her strained and frightened
nerves.
 When
Ladies Meet (Spanish
movie tie-in novelization)
The Women: Mujeres (1939)
Description: Softcover novella based on the film of
the same name. This is from the Mexican release of the film and in Spanish.
There are grainy black and white images on the pulp pages inside.
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