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Bless the Beasts and Children is a 1970 novel by Glendon Swarthout that tells the story of several emotionally disturbed boys away at summer camp who unite to stop a buffalo hunt. The 151-page (192 pages in paperback, first edition) book covers some social issues of the 1960s and 1970s.
A bidding war broke out over the film rights, which Stanley Kramer eventually won. [1] Kramer negotiated with Columbia Pictures for the right to produce and direct the film, [2] which made its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in August 1971, as the United States's entry in the international competition.
Bless the Beasts and Children may refer to: Bless the Beasts and Children, a 1970 novel by Glendon Swarthout; Bless the Beasts and Children, the 1971 film adaptation directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Bill Mumy; Bless the Beasts and Children, the soundtrack to the film "Bless the Beasts and Children" (song), the theme song to the film ...
Besides a Hopwood Award and a Theatre Guild Award for his one play, Swarthout was twice nominated by his publishers for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (for They Came To Cordura by Random House and Bless The Beasts & Children by Doubleday), he received an O. Henry Prize Short Story nomination (in 1960 for "A Glass of Blessings"), a Gold Medal ...
Born in Brooklyn, he attended New York's High School of Performing Arts, and later studied acting with Stella Adler and singing with Ruth Miller. His Chicago performance as the Crown Prince in a 1963 production of The King and I led its composer, Richard Rodgers, to invite him to reprise the role in the 1964 revival in New York at Lincoln Center.
"Bless the Beasts and Children" is the theme song to the 1971 eponymous film and was performed by the Carpenters. It was featured on the B-side to their hit, " Superstar ". Billboard magazine listed the single as “Superstar/ Bless the Beasts and Children” on the Hot 100 after the song gained significant airplay, charting first at number 16 ...
Bleak House (serialised 1852–1853, published as a book 1853), Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1920) Bleak House (1922) Bless the Beasts and Children (1970), Glendon Swarthout: Bless the Beasts & Children (1971) Bless the Child (1993), Cathy Cash Spellman Bless the Child (2000) The Blessing (1951), Nancy Mitford: Count Your Blessings (1959)
Charles William Mumy Jr. (/ ˈ m uː m i /; born February 1, 1954 [2]) is an American actor, writer, producer, and musician.He came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor whose work included television appearances on Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and a role in the film Dear Brigitte, followed by a three-season role as Will Robinson in the ...