Finding Dorothy: A Novel

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The two women might have remained in their silent test of wills had not a large commotion ensued from the elevator bay—­a loud thwack and a cry of “Bugger all! It’s a testament to Letts’ skill that she can capture on the page, without benefit of audio, that same emotion we have all felt sometime over the last 80 years while listening to ‘Over the Rainbow. million—the biggest Pixar opening in the country's history—debuting in second place behind Warcraft. A breathtaking read that will transport you over the rainbow and into the heart of one of America’s most enduring fairy tales. Of course, Andrew would do passes, and he and I would brainstorm a lot together and then we would bring it to the group of story artists.

million from 37 markets, falling in third place behind Independence Day: Resurgence and Now You See Me 2.She was slapped, forced to smoke an ungodly amount of cigarettes to keep her weight down, and allegedly harassed sexually- She was sixteen! Seventy-­seven years old and Maud sometimes still felt as if her mother were perched just behind the wings, whispering stage instructions. In addition to being Judy’s confidant, Maud vocalizes the necessity of keeping the film adaptation true to Frank’s work. A private trolley line that cut through the center of the studio’s back lots could whisk you across the world, or back in time—­from old New York’s Brownstone Row to the Wild West’s Billy the Kid Street to Renaissance Italy’s Verona Square—­with no stops in the outside world. But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of "Over the Rainbow," Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story, from her youth as a suffragette's daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

A woman with a heart, a brain, courage to spare and a girl's sense of wonder-this is the heroine of Elizabeth Letts's sparkling, touching Finding Dorothy . In the ‘present day’ 1938 timeline, you get a look at behind the scenes, as Maud tries her best to ensure the movie stays true to the book. Maud [Gage Baum] is a fascinating character, and this is a poignant, absorbing tale of the life and love story that led to the creation of a beloved classic. In 1914, when Frank had opened his company, Hollywood had been a sleepy backwater of orange trees and bungalows, and filmmaking a crazy venture seen as a passing fad. She twisted the emerald she wore on her fourth finger and smoothed the folds of her simple floral dress, aware how out of place she must appear to this elegant young man.Wenn du das Abo nicht fortsetzen möchtest, kannst du es vor Ende des Testzeitraums jederzeit kündigen. Judy reminds Maud of a young girl she cared for and tried to help in South Dakota, a dreamer who never got her happy ending.

Maud was about to ask him why, but as she’d aged she’d learned to keep her thoughts to herself so as not to come off as a doddering old fool. To her credit, the author doesn’t flinch from describing the depravity of the SS in Auschwitz and the unimaginable suffering of their victims—no gauzy evasions here, as in Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Letts (The Perfect Horse) inspires in this miraculous true story of one woman’s trek from Maine to California on horseback. Maud’s mother Matilda is another fascinating character, having been one of the nineteenth century’s most outspoken women’s rights activists.Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband’s masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Torbin Xan Bullock as Gerald, a California sea lion, who wants to lie on the rock occupied by Fluke and Rudder only to be constantly repelled by them. You get to explore her family life, her relationships with her mother and sister, her meeting Frank and their life together, and this was simply wonderful to read. Initially, some of the characters were to end up in a SeaWorld-like marine park, but the revision gave them an option to leave.