Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Difference 80 Years Make

Amusing GKC anecdote. Could you imagine this movie getting made today without changing the title?


British novelist Daphne du Maurier was nervous about her impending 1928 screen test. She had been suggested for the title role in the movie version of The Constant Nymph and decided that the best way to prepare for the ordeal was to play some tennis and then relax with Chesterton's The Return of Don Quixote. [Daphne du Maurier, Myself When Young, New York, 1977, p. 114]

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