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The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title.Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate at their party's national convention.
The following list ranks the number-one best-selling fiction books. Only four books topped the list that year, the list being dominated for 34 weeks by John le Carré's spy novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. The prolific novelist Louis Auchincloss had his only No. 1 bestseller that year (and only for one week at the top, though it lasted ...
My Autobiography is a book by Charlie Chaplin, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1964. Along with Chaplin: His Life and Art (1985), it provided the source material for the 1992 feature film Chaplin. It provides a revealing look into the life of a 20th-century filmmaker and celebrity.
The novel was published in book form on October 22, 1962, and was then adapted into a 1964 film of the same name directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Dan O'Herlihy, and Walter Matthau. In 2000, the novel was adapted again for a televised play, broadcast live in black and white on CBS.
Earlier that year, Time Out New York Kids ranked it number 12 among the "50 Best Books for Kids". [5] Late in 2015, the same source ranked it number 34 in the "73 best kids' books of all time for families". [19] Despite its popularity, the book has been banned from some schools and libraries "because it was said to set a bad example for children".
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 [a] – April 16, 1994) was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. [2] Ellison wrote Shadow and Act (1964), a collection of political, social, and critical essays, and Going to the Territory (1986). [3]
Charulata is based on Tagore’s story Nastanirh (The Broken Nest), set in Calcutta during 1879, at the height of the Bengali Renaissance under British rule. The film centers on Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee), the intelligent and artistic wife of Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), an upper-class Bengali intellectual who edits and publishes a political newspaper.
The book became an immediate best-seller, [76] selling out on its first day. [77] Only 25,000 copies of the first edition were printed, necessitating several reprints, including two in the last week of March 1964 and five more by January 1965. [ 52 ]