Tag Archives: adapted screenplays

August 2022
The Day on Fire: James Ramsey Ullman and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on September 10, 2022 by wsherk

To create the biographical novel, The Day on Fire (1958), American writer, adventurer, and mountaineer James Ramsey Ullman at age 50 traveled to Europe and Africa to retrace the steps of the 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud. Upon his return, … Read More…

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July 2022
Statues in a Garden: Isabel Colegate and Dimitri Tiomkin

Posted on September 5, 2022 by wsherk

The first notice of Dimitri Tiomkin’s interest in making a film version of the Isabel Colegate novel, Statues in a Garden, dates from the fall of 1965. The novel, published in Great Britain the previous year, had made its way … Read More…

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October 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor

Posted on November 3, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk During the summer of 1965 Dimitri Tiomkin plops down a $2,000 advance, based on a $10,000 option, for the right to film Jorge Amado’s novel Home is the Sailor. At the time, Jorge Amado (1921–2001), a … Read More…

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August 2021
Dimitri Tiomkin options Will Henry’s novel and co-produces Mackenna’s Gold

Posted on August 28, 2021 by wsherk

by Warren M. Sherk As 1964 draws to a close, Dimitri Tiomkin secures an option from American novelist Will Henry for the motion picture rights to his Western novel, Mackenna’s Gold, published by Random House the year before. With a penchant … Read More…

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