From the Page to the Screen: Six Favorite Books and their Screen Adaptations

From the Page to the Screen: The Final Stretch of Summer Reading

Good books and good moves: the two things I couldn’t possibly live without. All right, so food, water, and shelter may rank a little higher in terms of actual biological needs, but I assure you, books and movies are not far behind. I especially love those long summer days, when spending the entire day with your nose in a book just feels right. And with so little summertime left, I just wanted to suggest some of my favorite page-to-screen adoptions. Half of them I read before seeing the film and half of them after. Either way, each and every one of these was a personal page-turner and I suggest them to anyone with a literary bone in their body.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Hurd Hatfield, George Sanders, and Angela Lansbury star in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945, Albert Lewin director)

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Gregory Peck and Brock Peters in To Kill a Mockingbird (1960, Robert Mulligan director)

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The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, and Doris Bowdon in The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford director)

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Random Harvest by James Hilton

Greer Garson and Ronald Colman

Greer Garson and Ronald Colman in Random Harvest (1942, Melvin LeRoy director)

*Note: If you have not seen this movie, I highly suggest you read the book first. I don’t want to give away any spoilers but I know that something will be ruined if you watch the movie first.

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier