Virago "Related Movies"

LibraryThing now has "related movies" in Common Knowledge, which links to IMDB (read about it here). Several Virago Modern Classics have been made into films, so why not make sure this is recorded in Common Knowledge? This would be similar to our Viragos Described project.

If you know of a VMC with a related movie, add it to Common Knowledge and report back on it in this thread.

I added Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont and noted that Rebecca has already been done.

Added The Orchid House and Poor Cow.

And Mary Lavelle and the Frost in May miniseries.

Added The Enchanted April (2 movies).

Also The Return of the Soldier, My Brilliant Career, The Getting of Wisdom, Maurice Guest. . .

The Yellow Wallpaper, Gone to Earth, Precious Bane

:)

The Weather in the Streets, The Echoing Grove, A Pin to See the Peepshow, The Magic Toyshop, A Lost Lady, O Pioneers, The Song of the Lark, For Love Alone, The Constant Nymph, South Riding

The Birds Fall Down, The Well of Loneliness, The Ponder Heart, The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (many made into movies).

You're a busy woman, Christina!!

I added a couple - The Scapegoat, The Birds and Other Stories, An Angel at my Table. Then I fell on my sword and added the dreadful Peyton Place. Which Pat Barker book has the Stanley and Iris characters in it? Union Street? That was made into a horrible movie with Fonda and DeNiro as the title characters (moved from the North of England to America) and I feel somewhat reluctant to include it.

I have a few more to add. Sorry there's no links, my internet is slow today.

Angel
I Capture the Castle
The Age of Innocence
The House of Mirth

OK, this is fun. And by golly, spreadsheets are fun, too. So I felt compelled to add a column to the Virago Collection Tracker to note those with "related movies" entered !

I win!

The Thorn Birds, She Done Him Wrong, Up the Junction, Lady Audley's Secret, Time After Time, A Dedicated Man and other stories, A Heritage and its History, Diana of the Crossways, The Last of Summer, Tell Me a Riddle, The Glimpses of the Moon, The Overlanders, Aurora Floyd, Spinster, The Women's Room, Heartburn, The Reef (Wharton), The Hours Before Dawn, A Woman of Independent Means, The Story of an African Farm, Enormous Changes at the Last Minute, Ann Veronica, A Wreath of Roses, The Sheik, The Way of an Eagle, Three Weeks, Una Donna (Aleramo), Hungry Hearts, Another Time, Another Place, Red Pottage, All Passion Spent, Joanna Godden, The Children (Wharton), That Lady (O'Brien), The Willow Cabin, Mrs. Miniver, Toddler on the Run (Shena Mackay), The Rising of the Moon, The White Bird Passes, The Other Woman (Colette), Union Street, The Men's Room, Ellen Foster, Charms for the Easy Life, All Men are Mortal, Paris Was Yesterday, A Woman's Guide to Adultery, The Summerhouse Trilogy, The Ha-Ha

OMG. I had no idea ..

Me neither - but hang on. Surely The Thorn Birds is not a VMC?

It's in our tracker ! I dutifully added Christina's barrage to the spreadsheet this afternoon.

> 15 - Yes - Julie -it is VMC 530 - The mini-series is at the top of my worst series ever - fell about laughing at the TV interpretation - Richard Chamberlain in the role of the Cardinal was one of the worst performances he ever did (with apologies to those who liked him as young Doctor Kildare!!) - I would think most of the actors featured would cringe if they ever look at film of their performances.

It was published as a VMC on the 30th anniversary of the publication of the book with an introduction by Maeve Binchy who wrote that "The Thorn Birds" has hypnotised readers who have never been remotely near Australia into feeling that Drogheda is just down the road."

I am not a fan of Colleen McCullough's writing but have to admit to a copy in my library as a VMC:-))

Ladies - I stand corrected. It was upon that awful mini series that I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Mutters to herself ... to think it is a real green VMC ...

Am I the only one who liked The Thorn Birds? I do not think it deserves to be a Virago Print, but I liked the book a lot back when I read it in the 70's.
belva

Belva, I liked it too. I read it in my teens and found it soooo romantic!

I liked it too. I loved the mini-series!!!

I liked it too.

Me too.

Yup, warms up the room just thinking about it!~!