#ward greene

[mikyapixie]

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝟽𝟷 𝓨𝓮𝓪𝓻 𝓐𝓷𝓷𝓲𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓣𝓸 𝓛𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓹!!!

[gregorygalloway]

Lady and the Tramp was released on 22 June 1955.

Based on Ward Greene's story, "Happy Dan, the Cynical Dog," published in Cosmopolitan in 1945, Walt Disney thought that elements of the story would work well with a story Disney had been working on since 1937, involving a dog named Lady. Disney hired Greene to write a novelization of the film, published in 1953, in order to generate interest in the movie.

Released to mixed reviews (many critics thought the film was overly sentimental, and that CinemaScope revealed many flaws in the animation), Lady and the Tramp was a box office success, Disney's most popular animated film since 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Peggy Lee (who provided the voice for Darling and 5 other characters in the film) co-wrote 6 songs for the film (and performed 3) and sued Disney in 1988 for breach of contract over rights issues (due to the video release in 1987) and was awarded $2.3 million in 1991.

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Lady and the Tramp (1955, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)

07/04/2025

[bluebeards-wife]

Life and Loves of a Modern Bluebeard (Ride the Nightmare) by Ward Greene; Published by Avon (1949)

[mudwerks]

Avon 190 - 1949 ~ Ann Cantor ~

1949; Life and Loves of a Modern Mister Bluebeard by Ward Greene. Cover art by Ann Cantor.

Ride the Nightmare...

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Lady and the Tramp (1955, Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi and Wilfred Jackson)

22/09/2024

[book2disney]

Lady and The Tramp (1955)

Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog by Ward Greene (1945)

[dixiecrime]

Advance Ads for They Won’t Forget in various trade papers in July 1937.  Lacking name stars, aside from Claude Rains, the film was marketed as an important social problem film in the Warner Bros.’s tradition, and for producer-director Mervyn Leroy and co-screenwriter Robert Rosen.  The film was the first to feature Lana Turner (then 16 year old), Allyn Joslyn and Ronald Reagan (who is said to have been in the crowd at the governor’s mansion). 

Based on Ward Greene’s 1936 novel Death in the Deep South, the story draws upon the 1915 murder of Mary Phagan and subsequent lynching of Leo Frank in Georgia, as well as on the spectacle of the southern  courtroom, particularly in light of the then recent 1931 trial of Scottsboro boys in Alabama. However, both novel and film substitute hard feeling over the Civil War and prejudice toward Northerners for themes of racism and antisemitism.