It Was A Book & Then A Movie - May 2022

Tell us if you've read anything tht has become a movie. Which did you like better?

Wizard of Oz: An Over-the-Rainbow Celebration of the World's Favorite Movie
Ben Nussbaum
4/5 stars
This is a short book celebrating the movie - The Wizard of Oz. The author discusses a myriad of topics on the film, the actors who performed and even talks about the Broadway musical - Wicked. Definitely for fans of the movie.

Crazy Heart: A Novel by Thomas Cobb is a great story and was made into Crazy Heart a really good film starring Jeff Bridges.

>3 Hagelstein: Crazy Heart was very well done. I didn't realize it was a novel.

The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America
John F. Kasson
Kasson relates the story Shirley Temple, one of the most popular child actress of her time period amidst the background and history of the Great Depression. He explores the films she was in, her popularity with the public who had sent her four thousand letters a week at the height of her fame and her parents who supported her but also spent most of her money, leaving her very little after her career was over. Highly recommended. Book

I was discussing other child actors that were cheated out of their fortunes like Shirley Temple. Here is a list of other child actors taken advantage of by their parents.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/child-stars-who-sued-their-parents.html...