What year was the novel written which the 1931 film Huckleberry Finn was based upon?
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Huckleberry Finn (1931 film) Huckleberry Finn (1931) is an American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Norman Taurog and starring Jackie Coogan as Tom Sawyer and Junior Durkin as Huckleberry Finn. The picture was based upon the novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.
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Tom Sawyer Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), "Tom Sawyer Abroad" (1894), and "Tom Sawyer, Detective" (1896).
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Ramona Ramona is an 1884 American novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson. Set in Southern California after the Mexican-American War, it portrays the life of a mixed-race Scots–Native American orphan girl, who suffers racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in the "Christian Union" on a weekly basis, the novel became immensely popular. It has had more than 300 printings, and been adapted five times as a film. A play adaptation has been performed annually outdoors since 1923.
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To levende og en død (film) To levende og en død is a 1937 Norwegian thriller film directed by Gyda Christensen and Tancred Ibsen and starring Hans Jacob Nilsen, Unni Torkildsen and Jan Vaage. It is based on the 1931 novel "To levende og en død" by Sigurd Christiansen. A post office worker is left wrestling with his conscience following a robbery at his workplace.
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Shadows on the Rock Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
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Orlando: A Biography Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October 1928. A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic, the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies.
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The House of the Seven Gables The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston. The novel follows a New England family and their ancestral home. In the book, Hawthorne explores themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement and colors the tale with suggestions of the supernatural and witchcraft. The setting for the book was inspired by a gabled house in Salem belonging to Hawthorne's cousin Susanna Ingersoll and by ancestors of Hawthorne who had played a part in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The book was well received upon publication and later had a strong influence on the work of H. P. Lovecraft. "The House of the Seven Gables" has been adapted several times to film and television.
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Back Street (novel) Back Street is a romance novel written by Fannie Hurst in 1931, with underlying themes of death and adultery. It has been filmed three times since its publication:
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The Road Back The Road Back (German: "Der Weg zurück" ) is a novel by German author Erich Maria Remarque, commonly regarded as a sequel to his 1929 novel "All Quiet on the Western Front". It was first serialized in the German newspaper "Vossische Zeitung" between December 1930 and January 1931, and published in book form in April 1931.
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Captain January (novel) Captain January is an 1891 children's novel, written by Laura E. Richards, and later transformed into two films, the 1924 silent film "Captain January", starring Baby Peggy and the 1936 musical film "Captain January", starring Shirley Temple. The story is about a lighthouse keeper and his little girl, Star.
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The Pagan Lady The Pagan Lady is a 1931 American drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Evelyn Brent. It is based on the Broadway play "Pagan Lady" (1930) written by William DuBois.
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A Feather in Her Hat A Feather in Her Hat is a 1935 melodrama film starring Pauline Lord as a working-class woman with ambitions for her son. It is based on the novel of the same name by I. A. R. Wylie.
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La Bandera (novel) La Bandera is a 1931 French novel written by Pierre Mac Orlan.
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Roman Holiday (novel) Roman Holiday is a 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair. This novel is not related to the 1953 motion picture starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.
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C. S. Forester Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (27 August 1899 – 2 April 1966), known by his pen name Cecil Scott "C. S." Forester, was an English novelist known for writing tales of naval warfare such as the 12-book Horatio Hornblower series, depicting a Royal Navy officer during the Napoleonic wars. Two of the Hornblower books, "A Ship of the Line" and "Flying Colours", were jointly awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1938. His other works include "The African Queen" (1935; filmed in 1951 by John Huston).
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Jonah's Gourd Vine Jonah's Gourd Vine is the 1934 debut novel by Zora Neale Hurston. The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel describing the migration of characters, similar to her parents, from Alabama to Hurston's home of Eatonville, Florida.
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The Ghost Train (1931 film) The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play "The Ghost Train" by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction was by Walter Murton.
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Devotion (1931 film) Devotion (1931) is an American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Ann Harding and Leslie Howard based on the Pamela Wynne novel "A Little Flat in the Temple". Its plot involves a woman who disguises herself and gains employment in the home of the man she loves.
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Father Malachy's Miracle Father Malachy's Miracle is a 1931 novel by the Scottish writer Bruce Marshall.
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Gone with the Wind (novel) Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea". This historical novel features a "Bildungsroman" or coming-of-age story, with the title taken from a poem written by Ernest Dowson.
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Captain Applejack Captain Applejack is a 1931 American Pre-Code comedy film, produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film was directed by Hobart Henley and stars John Halliday, Mary Brian, Kay Strozzi and Arthur Edmund Carewe. The film was based on a 1921 play of the same name, starring Wallace Eddinger and written by Walter C. Hackett. The play had previously been filmed as a silent film in 1923 under the title of Strangers of the Night.
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Josef Winckler Josef Winckler (7 July 1881, Bentlage, Rheine – 29 January 1966, Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach) was a German writer, best known for his 1923 comic novel "The Mad Bomberg", which was turned into films in 1932 and 1957. One of his other popular novels was "Doctor Eisenbart" (1929), based on the life of Johann Andreas Eisenbarth.