call-girl who falls for a married man (Laurence Harvey) and mistakenly assumes that he will leave his wife for her. Taylor received an Academy Award for her intense role and both Joseph Ruttenberg and
John O'Hara's 1935 novel BUtterfield 8 was based on the life and death of a real-life call girl named Starr Faithfull. Because of the restrictions of the Production Code, the novel had never been filmed, and even in 1959 some changes had to be made before it could be filmed. The film makes the call girl a "model," although it
BUtterfield 8 – the camel-case title references retired telephone exchanges – is O'Hara's 'ripped from the headlines' novel. .. Another scalding piece of American realism from John O'Hara, BUtterfield 8 moves away from the author's "Gibbsville," Pa., home locale to depict a dozen or so main characters from a wide range of
Other characters -- her friend Eddie, a cop; architect Paul Farley; other young men and women about town; and Liggett's wife Emily and teenage daughters -- fill out this cool, biting portrait of desperately gay times in a lean era. Click here to see the rest of this review. The review of this Book prepared by David Loftus.
Alterations made on John O'Hara's 1935 novel by the scenarists (among other things, they have updated it from the Prohibition era, spectacularized the ending and refined some of the dialog) have given Butterfield 8 the form and pace it needs, but the story itself remains a weak one, the behavior and motivations of its
Call girl Gloria Wandrous wakes up in wealthy executive Weston Liggett's apartment and finds Wes has left her $250 dollars. Insulted by the money which she never takes from men, Gloria, whose dress is torn, takes Wes's wife Emily's mink coat to cover herself and scrawls "No Sale" in lipstick on the mirror, but then orders
It is a shame, however, that one of O'Hara's few good novels had to be manhandled the way Butter-field 8 has been--although the catastrophe might be attributed to force of habit. For Butterfield 8 is one of the truly great chronicles of the 1930's. Unlike the more recent O'Hara offerings, it is not filled with drooly bedroom

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February 2018