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David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon Charles Dickens' 1850 novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (though a number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted).
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note $10 Raise: George Marshall: Edward Everett Horton, Karen Morley, Berton Churchill: Comedy: Fox Film: 1,000 Dollars a Minute: Aubrey Scotto ...
David Copperfield, which also featured Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan, W. C. Fields and Lionel Barrymore, was a success and made Bartholomew an overnight star. [19] He was subsequently cast in a succession of film productions with some of the most popular stars of the day.
While at MGM, David O. Selznick cast Oliver in two film versions of novels by Charles Dickens, as the prim, acidic Miss Pross A Tale of Two Cities [7] (1935), starring Ronald Colman, and as the title character's eccentric aunt, Betsy Trotwood in David Copperfield [8] (also 1935).
She was first most notably depicted in the 1935 film adaptation by Maureen O'Sullivan. Pamela Franklin portrayed her in the 1969 adaptation, the first feature film depiction since the 1935 film, and the last for 50 years. Spenlow is played by Morfydd Clark in Armando Iannucci’s 2019 adaptation, The Personal History of David Copperfield. Dora ...
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David Copperfield is also a partially autobiographical novel: [2] "a very complicated weaving of truth and invention", [3] with events following Dickens's own life. [4] Of the books he wrote, it was his favourite. [5] Called "the triumph of the art of Dickens", [6] [7] it marks a turning point in his work, separating the novels of youth and ...
Like George Sanders and Vincent Price after him, Rathbone made a name for himself in the 1930s by playing suave villains in costume dramas and swashbucklers, including David Copperfield (1935) as the abusive stepfather Mr. Murdstone; Anna Karenina (1935) as her distant husband, Karenin; The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) as Pontius Pilate; Captain ...