Category Archives: Film

Tab Hunter and The Loved One

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Houston blogger (Joe Leydon) has posted a story in which he explains how the career of veteran film star Tab Hunter (whom he met at at Houston conference earlier this year) was saved by a role in the film of Waugh’s … Continue reading →

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Review of The Loved One DVD

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

A Connecticut-based newspaper weblog contains a feature-length article that is essentially a review of the DVD of the 1965 film based on Waugh’s novella, The Loved One (1948). The review concludes that the film begins well with the early scenes satirizing … Continue reading →

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Waugh Among the Bohemians

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

The BBC is currently running a cultural documentary entitled How to be a Bohemian. It is presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell and is broadcast on Monday nights over the BBC4 channel. The first episode traced the history of artistic “bohemians” from … Continue reading →

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The Loved One Added to Recommended Books about L.A.

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Jeffrey Manley

Last month the Guardian issued another in its series of book recommendations about U.S. cities. This one related to books about Los Angeles. Others have dealt with San Francisco and New Orleans. The original L.A. list contained no books by … Continue reading →

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1960s Vintage Films of Waugh Novels Now Available on DVD

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Jeffrey Manley

According to this post by film blogger Michael Barrett, both the early theatrical films made of Waugh novels are now available in digital format: The Loved One (MGM, 1965, directed by Tony Richardson, screenplay by Terry Southern and Christopher Isherwood), … Continue reading →

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Sunset Boulevard’s debt to The Loved One

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Thanks to Steve Sailer for drawing to our attention his article in Taki’s Magazine about how much Billy Wilder’s classic 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard is derived from Waugh’s The Loved One, which Wilder had tried to get the movie studio … Continue reading →

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Film adaptation of Bella Fleace Gave a Party

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Antony F. P. Vickery

The Evening Standard (London) reports that a film has been made of Evelyn Waugh’s short story Bella Fleace Gave a Party, first published in Harper’s Bazaar in 1932. The film stars Johnny Standing and Siân Phillips and will premiere at the … Continue reading →

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