| re: "real-life correspondence" between Elizabeth Weiland and Hart? | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 01:51 am EST 02/19/25 | |
| In reply to: re: "real-life correspondence" between Elizabeth Weiland and Hart? - dbdbdb 09:50 pm EST 02/18/25 | |
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| Tried for a couple of hours to post a reply, but the site was down for me. Odd, it seems to have been working for some other people. And now I have to revise it to account for Seth's helpful reply. I would just thinking that the Variety reviewer must have had some reason for writing that there was a "real-life correspondence" between the two. I thought that either he misunderstood something or someone involved with the film or with promoting it gave him that impression. I don't mind if the film doesn't care about precise historical accuracy, unless it's something that gives a wrong impression about things that did happen. Obviously, some things have been completely invented for the film and that's OK. I was just wondering if there was an Elizabeth Weiland who corresponded with Hart. In 2012, when I reviewed for this site Gary Marmorstein’s bio of Hart, A Ship Without a Sail, I wondered about the lack of quotes from Hart letters in the book: “One thing that I wish had been addressed: While many letters written by Richard Rodgers (mostly to his wife) are quoted, few if any letters from Hart are quoted. Did he not write letters? Are they in private hands? Does no one know? Some explanation or even just an acknowledgment of this absence would have been welcome." So I was just interested in knowing whether there are letters. Now there is an answer, which is that the screenwriter found letters at an auction (it would be interesting to read them), but invented the name Elizabeth Weiland and I'm guessing other things about this fictional character inspired, it seems, by a real person. |
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