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Literary Darlings (my alternate list title). Movies/Shows with depictions of the greats and not-so-greats from the world of literature. Sometimes in straightforward biographical form, sometimes a bit more fictionalized. All-Time. Alphabetically.
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- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsNorma ShearerFredric MarchCharles LaughtonElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.Norma Shearer - Elizabeth Barrett, Fredric March - Robert Browning
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsJennifer JonesJohn GielgudBill TraversElizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.Jennifer Jones - Elizabeth Barrett, Bill Travers - Robert Browning
- DirectorMichael DarlowStarsJane LapotaireJoss AcklandJeremy BrettJane Lapotaire and Joss Ackland star in this adaptation of Rudolph Besier's play. Elizabeth Barrett is kept a virtual prisoner by her father. Then the poet Robert Browning bursts into her life.Jane Lapotaire - Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, Jeremy Brett - Robert Browning
- DirectorJulian JarroldStarsAnne HathawayJames McAvoyJulie WaltersA biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.Anne Hathaway - Jane Austen
- DirectorHenry KingStarsGregory PeckDeborah KerrEddie AlbertToward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.Gregory Peck - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Deborah Kerr - Sheila Graham
- DirectorJames WhaleStarsBoris KarloffElsa LanchesterColin CliveMary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.Elsa Lanchester - Mary Wollstoncraft Shelly, Gavin Gordon - Lord Byron, Douglas Walton - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- DirectorJane CampionStarsAbbie CornishBen WhishawPaul SchneiderThe three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.Ben Whishaw - John Keats
- StarsAlfred BurkeVickery TurnerAnn PenfoldDramatized biography of the Brontë sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily.Vickery Turner - Charlotte Bronte, Ann Penfold - Anne Bronte, Rosemary McHale - Emily Bronte
- DirectorJulian FarinoStarsStephen Campbell MooreOliver MilburnMichael ElwynFollowing the success of his poem "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Byron becomes the toast of London.Johnny Lee Miller - Lord Byron
- DirectorBennett MillerStarsPhilip Seymour HoffmanClifton Collins Jr.Catherine KeenerIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote, Catherine Keener - Nelle Harper Lee
- DirectorChristopher HamptonStarsEmma ThompsonJonathan PryceSteven WaddingtonThe platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington (Dame Emma Thompson) and writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce) in the early twentieth century.Jonathan Pryce - Lytton Strachey
- DirectorKathy BatesStarsSam ShepardJudy DavisBebe NeuwirthBiographical look at the bombastic love affair that writers Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman shared in 1940 and 50's Hollywood. Refusing to marry, but deeply in love, the two engaged in many affairs and battled the bottle. Dashiell served in both World wars, but in the 1950's, he was branded a Communist and cast into prison during the McCarthy witch hunts. Hellman likewise was branded a Communist, but was kept out of prison. Neither were able to work, requiring Lillian to take a job as a sales-woman in a boutique while Dashiell suffered from tuberculosis and eventually lung cancer. Bebe Neuwirth also appears as socialite-writer Dorothy Parker.Sam Shepard - Dashiell Hammett, Judy Davis - Lillian Hellman, Bebe Neuwirth - Dorothy Parker, Mark Zimmerman - Walter Winchell
- DirectorCurtis BernhardtStarsOlivia de HavillandIda LupinoPaul HenreidGenius authors Emily and Charlotte Brontë fall in love with their curate as they seek to get their work published.Ida Lupino - Emily Bronte, Olivia de Havilland - Charlotte Bronte, Nancy Coleman - Anne Bronte
- DirectorJulian SchnabelStarsMathieu AmalricEmmanuelle SeignerMarie-Josée CrozeThe true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.Mathieu Amalric - Jean-Do (Jean-Dominique Bauby)
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsCoral BrowneIan HolmPeter GallagherIan Holm is children's author Lewis Carroll in this poignant fantasy-drama set in 1930s New York and populated by the fabulous special effects creatures of Muppet master Jim Henson.Reverend Charles L. Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
- DirectorBarbara Willis SweeteStarsDiane D'AquilaBrent CarverPeter HuttPeter Hutt - Will Shakespeare
- DirectorHenry BromellStarsJeremy IronsNeve CampbellSissy SpacekRenowned writer F. Scott Fitzgerald is living the last months of his life with his youthful secretary, confidant and protege who later wrote a memoir of their time together.Jeremy Irons - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsJohnny DeppKate WinsletJulie ChristieThe story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.Johnny Depp - J.M. Barrie
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsWinona RyderAngelina JolieClea DuVallA directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.Winona Ryder - Susanne Kaysen
- DirectorKelly AsburyStarsJames McAvoyEmily BluntMaggie SmithSeparated by a garden fence and a feud, are blue gnomes on one side and red gnomes on the other. This doesn't stop blue Gnomeo and red Juliet from falling in love with each other. Do they have a future together?Patrick Stewart - Bill Shakespeare
- DirectorKen RussellStarsGabriel ByrneJulian SandsNatasha RichardsonThe Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.Gabriel Byrne - Byron, Julian Sands - Shelly, Natasha Richardson - Mary Shelley
- DirectorJack O'BrienStarsEdward AsnerRichard ChamberlainBob DishyA writer (made to resemble Russian playwright Anton Chekhov) narrates a collection of his stories, all of which are written in the style of Chekhov.Richard Chamberlain - Anton Chekhov
- StarsStacy KeachJosephine ChaplinMarisa BerensonOf all the memorable characters created by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, none was more complicated, more fascinating, or more charismatic than Hemingway himself. Adored by women and the quintessential "man's man," he was husband, father, lover, war correspondent, brawler, adventurer, and a sportsman. Set against the turbulent history of the times, Hemingway reveals his tender and stormy relationships with his four wives, Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn, and Mary Welsh, each of whom had significant impact on his work.Stacey Keach - Ernest Hemingway
- DirectorAndy GarciaStarsAndy GarciaWriter Ernest Hemingway befriends boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, who inspires him to pen the famous tale "The Old Man and the Sea."Anthony Hopkins - Ernest Hemingway
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsNicole KidmanClive OwenDavid StrathairnA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.Clive Owen - Ernest Hemingway, David Strathairn - John Dos Passos