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Helen Joy Davidman was born on 18 April 1915 into a secular middle-class Jewish family in New York City of Polish-Jewish and Ukrainian-Jewish descent. Her parents, Joseph Davidman and Jeanette Spivack (married 1909), arrived in America in the late 19th century.
Gresham was born in New York City, the son of writers William Lindsay Gresham and Joy Davidman.William Gresham was the author of Nightmare Alley, the classic of American noir literature, while Joy Davidman (of Jewish descent) was best known for her book Smoke on the Mountain, about the Ten Commandments.
William Lindsay Gresham (/ ˈ ɡ r ɛ ʃ ə m /; August 20, 1909 – September 14, 1962) was an American novelist and non-fiction author particularly well-regarded among readers of noir. His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted to film in 1947 and 2021 .
The story follows Lewis as he meets an American fan, Joy Gresham, whom he befriends and eventually marries.The story also focuses on his relationship with his brother, Warren Lewis and deals with his personal struggle: Lewis preaches that one should endure suffering with patience, but finds that the simple answers he had preached no longer apply when Joy becomes afflicted with cancer and ...
Shadowlands with Joss Ackland as C.S. Lewis and Claire Bloom as Joy Gresham, won two BAFTA TV Awards and the 1986 International Emmy for best Drama. [6] In 2019, Gateway Films/Vision Video became part of the Christian History Institute, also founded by A. Kenneth Curtis. In 2020, Vision Video launched the streaming service Redeem TV. [7]
Shadowlands is a 1993 British biographical drama film about the relationship between academic C. S. Lewis (played by Anthony Hopkins) and Jewish American poet Joy Davidman (played by Debra Winger), her death from cancer, and how this challenged his Christianity.
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Dr. Robert Emlyn Havard (1901–1985) was the physician of C. S. Lewis, his wife Joy Gresham, and J.R.R. Tolkien. Havard has also been credited as a "skilled and prolific writer". Havard has also been credited as a "skilled and prolific writer".