The Member of the Wedding (1952)
Directed by Fred Zinnemann
When you love a novel, you’ll typically go to the theater expecting to enjoy your favorite scenes and characters, and sometimes they haven’t even made it to the cutting room floor, because the screenplay writer and the director have had to be merciless. Tommy Traddles, where are you in David Copperfield (1935)? Mrs. Bagnet, you Old Girl whom everybody…
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