70 Marriages Between Famous Film People (That Began Before 1960)

The female half of the partnership is named first in each case

1. Alice Faye and Phil Harris (1941-1995)
2. Ann Todd and David Lean (1949-1957)
3. Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer (1954-1968)
4. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra (1951-1957)
5. Ava Gardner and Mickey Rooney (1942-1943)
6. Barbra Stanwyck and Robert Taylor (1939-1951)
7. Betty Grable and Jackie Coogan (1937-1940)
8. Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim (1952-1957)
9. Carole Lombard and Clark Gable (1939-1942)
10. Carole Lombard and William Powell (1931-1933)
11. Claire Bloom and Rod Steiger (1959-1969)
12. Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher (1955-1959)
13. Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher (1959-1964)
14. Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding (1952-1957)
15. Elizabeth Taylor and Mike Todd (1957-1958)
16. Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton (1929-1962)
17. Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine (1964-1964) (One Month)
18. Fay Wray and Robert Riskin (1942–55)
19. Frances Farmer and Leif Erickson (1936-1942)
20. Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes (1954-1989)
21. Ginger Rogers and Lew Ayres (1934-1940)
22. Giuletta Masina and Federico Fellini (1943-1993)
23. Gloria Grahame and Nicholas Ray (1948-1952)
24. Gloria Swanson and Wallace Beery (1916-1919)
25. Gracie Allen and George Burns (1926-1964)
26. Hedy Lamarr and John Loder (1943-1947)
27. Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur (1928-1956)
28. Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini (1950-1957)
29. Jane Greer and Rudy Vallee (1943-1944)
30. Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan (1940-1948)
31. Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis (1951-1962)
32. Jean Simmons and Richard Brooks (1960-1967)
33. Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger (1950-1960)
34. Jennifer Jones and  David O Selznick (1949-1965)
35. Jennifer Jones and Robert Walker (1939-1944)
36. Jessica Tandy and Jack Hawkins (1932-1942)
37. Jill Ireland and David McCallum (1957-1967)
38. Joan Blondell and Dick Powell (1936-1944)
39. Joan Blondell and Mike Todd (1947-1950)
40. Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jnr (1929-1933)
41. Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone (1935-1939)
42. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman (1958-2008)
43. Judy Garland and Vincente Minnelli (1945-1951)
44. June Allyson and Dick Powell (1945-1963)
45. Kay Kendall and Rex Harrison (1957-1959)
46. Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart (1945-1957)
47. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (1940–60)
48. Madeleine Carroll and Sterling Hayden (1942-1946)
49. Margaret Sullivan and Henry Fonda (1931-1932)
50. Margaret Sullivan and William Wyler (1934-1936)
51. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr (1920-1936)
52. Merle Oberon and Alexander Korda (1939-1945)
53. Merle Oberon and Lucien Ballard (1945-1949)
54. Nanette Newman and Bryan Forbes (1955-Present)
55. Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner (1957-1962) (and 1972-1981)
56. Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg (1927-1936)
57. Paulette Goddard and Burgess Meredith (1944-1950)
58. Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin (1936-1942)
59. Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles (1943-1948)
60. Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson (1928-1939)
61. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (1942-1985)
62. Sian Phillips and Peter O’Toole (1959-1979)
63. Simone Signoret and Yves Allegret (1944-1949)
64. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand (1951-1985)
65. Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti (1957-1962) (and 1966-2007)
66. Ursula Andress and John Derek (1957-1966)
67. Veronica Lake and Andre De Toth (1944-1952)
68. Virginia McKenna and Denholm Elliott (1954-1954) (8 Months)
69. Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier (1940-1960)
70. Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders (1949-1954)

Special Effects Since 1977: 80 Films from Industrial Light and Magic

These are just some of the major movies George Lucas’ Industrial Light and Magic has worked on since its first film in 1977. As you can see, there are few special effects milestones in the last 35 years which have not been the work of this one company.

1977
1. Star Wars
1980
2. The Empire Strikes Back
1981
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982
4. E T. The Extra-Terrestrial
5. Poltergeist
1983
6. Return of the Jedi
1985
7. Cocoon
8. Back to the Future
1987
9. Innerspace
1988
10. Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989
11. The Abyss
12. Ghost
1990
13. Total Recall
1991
14. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
15. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1992
16. Memoirs of an Invisible Man
17. Death Becomes Her
1993
18. Jurassic Park
1994
19. Forrest Gump
1995
20. Casper
21. Jumanji
1996
22. Twister
23. Mission: Impossible
24. Mars Attacks!
1997
25. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
26. Men in Black
27. Contact
28. Starship Troopers
1998
29. Deep Impact
30. Small Soldiers
1999
31. The Mummy
32. Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace
33. Wild Wild West
2000
34. Mission to Mars
35. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
2001
36. The Mummy Returns
37. Pearl Harbor
38. A.I. Artificial Intelligence
39. Planet of the Apes
40. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
2002
41. The Time Machine
42. Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
43. Minority Report
44. Men in Black II
45. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2003
46. The Hulk
47. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
48. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
49. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
50. Stuck On You
2004
51. Van Helsing
52. The Day after Tomorrow
53. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
54. The Chronicles of Riddick
55. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2005
56. War of the Worlds
57. Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
58. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
59. The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
2006
60. Mission: Impossible III
61. Poseidon
62. The Nightmare before Christmas 3-D
2007
63. Transformers
64. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
65. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
2008
66. Iron Man
67. Speed Racer
68. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
69. Twilight
2009
70. Star Trek
71. Terminator Salvation
72. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
73. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
74. Avatar
2010
75. Iron Man 2
2011
76. Super 8
77. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
78. Cowboys & Aliens
79. Hugo
80. Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol

Film Versions of 99 Classic 19th Century Novels

 

This list of classic novels includes novellas and short novels for children, but not short stories or plays. Sometimes there may be little to distinguish ‘novella’ and ‘long short story’ in terms of word-count but if the work was published separately under its own title it’s usually considered a novella, if it’s part of a larger collection it’s generally considered a short story.

Some of these works have been filmed many times in many countries, starting in the silent era. I’ve included only the most famous adaptations and they are all movie, not TV, adaptations.

Of course all film adaptations leave out elements of the original book and make changes, but I’ve used the word ‘loosely’ below to indicate significant alterations of structure or to show that the film-makers have changed the time or place in which the story is set.

I’ve given the novel’s author and year of publication, then the country and year of release of the movie. The title of the film is the same as the book unless otherwise stated.

1.          The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain, 1884)

Film: (US, 1939) (US, 1960) (US, 1985) The Adventures Of Huck Finn (US, 1993)

2.          The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conon Doyle, 1892) 

Film: (US, 1939)

3.          The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain, 1876)

Film: (US, 1938) Tom Sawyer (US, 1973)

4.          Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll, 1865)

Film: Alice in Wonderland (US, 1933) Alice in Wonderland (US, 1951, cartoon) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  (UK, 1972) Alice (Cz, 1988) Alice in Wonderland (US, 2010)

5.          Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy, 1877) 

Film: (US, 1935) (UK, 1948) (US, 1997)

6.          Around The World In 80 Days (Jules Verne, 1873)

Film: (US, 1956) (UK, 2004)

7.          The Awakening (Kate Chopin, 1899)

Film: Grand Isle (US, 1991)

8.          Barry Lyndon (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1844)

Film: (UK, 1975)

9.          Billy Budd (Hermann Melville, 1891)

Film: (US, 1962)

10.      Black Beauty (Anna Sewall, 1877)  

Film: (UK, 1971) (US, 1994)

11.      The Bostonians (Henry James, 1886)

Film: (US, 1984)

12.      The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1880)

Film: (US, 1958)

13.      Captains Courageous (Rudyard Kipling, 1897)

Film: (US, 1937) (US, 1977) (US, 1996)

14.      The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal, 1839)

Film: (Fr, 1948)

15.      A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens, 1843)

Film: A Christmas Carol AKA Scrooge (UK, 1951) Scrooge (UK, 1970) loosely as Scrooged (US, 1988)

16.      A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (Mark Twain, 1889)

Film: (US, 1949, musical)

17.      Confessions Of An English Opium Eater (Thomas De Quincey, 1821)

Film: very loosely as Confessions Of An Opium Eater  (US, 1962)

18.      The Count Of Monte Christo (Alexandre Dumas, 1845)

Film: (US, 1934) (Fr, 1954) (US, 1961) (US, 2002)

19.      Cousine Bette (Honore De Balzac, 1846)

Film: (US,98)

20.      Crime And Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)          

Film: Raskalnikov (Ger, 1923) Crime And Punishment (US, 1935) loosely as Crime And Punishment  USA (US, 1959) loosely as Crime and Punishment in Suburbia (US, 2000) Crime And Punishment (US, 2002)

21.      Daisy Miller (Henry James, 1878)

Film: (US, 1974)

22.      David Copperfield (Charles Dickens, 1850)

Film: (US, 1935)

23.      Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol, 1842)

Film: (Russ, 1960)  

24.      The Death Of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy, 1886)

Film: loosely as Ivansxtc (US,  2000)

25.      Dracula (Bram Stoker, 1897)

Film: (US, 1931) (UK, 1958) (US, 1979)

26.      Effi Briest (Theodor Fontane. 1894)

Film: (Ger, 1974)

27.      Elective Affinities (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1809)

Film: (Italy, 1996)

28.      Emma (Jane Austen, 1815)

Film: very loosely as Clueless (US, 1995) Emma (US,1996)

29.      Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin, 1833)(a novel in verse)

Film: Onegin (UK, 1999)

30.      The Europeans (Henry James, 1878)

Film: (US, 1979)

31.      Far From The Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy, 1874)

Film: (UK, 1967)

32.      Fathers And  Sons (Ivan Turgenev, 1862)

Film: (Russ, 1959)

33.      Frankenstein  (Mary Shelley, 1818)

Film:  Frankenstein (US, 1931) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (US, 1994)

34.      Germinal (Emile Zola, 1885) 

Film: (Fr, 1993)

35.      Great Expectations (Charles Dickens, 1861)

Film: (UK, 1946) (US, 1998)

36.      The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo, 1831)

(US, 1923) (US, 1939) (Fr, 1957) (US, 1996, cartoon)

37.      The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1868)

Film: loosely (Jap, 1951)

38.      The Invisible Man (HG Wells, 1897)

Film: The Invisible Man (US, 1933) very loosely as Hollow Man (2000)

39.      The Island of Dr Moreau (HG Wells, 1896)

Film: The Island of Lost Souls (US, 1933) The Island of Dr Moreau

(US, 1977) The Island of Dr Moreau (US, 1996)

40.      Ivanhoe (Walter Scott, 1819)

Film: (US, 1952)

41.      Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte, 1847)

Film: (US, 1944) (Ital, 1996) (UK, 2010)

42.      Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (Jules Verne, 1864)

Film: (US, 1959) (US, 2008)

43.      Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy, 1896) 

Film: Jude (UK, 1996)

44.      Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883)

Film: (US, 1948) (US, 1960) (UK, 1971)

45.      King Solomons Mines (H. Rider Haggard, 1885) 

Film: (UK, 1937) (US, 1950) (US, 1985)

46.      La Bete Humaine (Emile Zola, 1890)

Film: (Fr, 1938)

47.      La Reine Margot (Alexander Dumas, 1845)

Film: (Fr, 1954) (Fr, 1994)

48.      Last Of The Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper, 1826)

Film: (US, 1936) (US, 1992)

49.      Le Colonel Chabert (Honore De Balzac, 1832)

Film: (Fr, 1943) (Fr, 1994)

50.      Le Pere Goriot (Honore De Balzac, 1835)

Film: (Fr, 1945)

51.      Les Miserables (Victor Hugo, 1862)

Film: (US, 1935) (Fr, 1995) (US, 1998)

52.      The Light That Failed (Rudyard Kipling, 1890)

Film: (US, 1939)

53.      Little Dorrit (Charles Dickens, 1857)

Film: (1988)

54.      Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1886)

Film: (US, 1936) (US, 1980)

55.      Little Women (Louisa May Alcott, 1869)

Film: (US, 1933) (US, 1949) (US, 1994)

56.      Lorna Doone (R.D Blackmore, 1869)  

Film: (US, 22) (UK, 1934) (US, 1951)

57.      Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1857)  

Film: (Fr, 1934) (US, 1949) (Fr, 1991)

58.      Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)

Film: (UK, 1999)

59.      The Master of Ballantrae (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1889)

Film: (US, 1953)

60.      The Mill On The Floss (George Eliot, 1860)

Film: (UK, 1937)

61.      Moby Dick (Hermann Melville, 1851)

Film: (US, 1930)  (US, 1956)  (US, 1998)

62.      The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins,1868)

Film: (US, 1934)

63.      Nana (Emile Zola, 1880)

Film: (Fr, 26) (It, 1982)

64.      Nicholas Nickleby (Charles Dickens, 1839)

Film: (UK, 1947)

65.      Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov, 1859)

Film: A Few Days from the Life of I.I. Oblomov (Rus, 1979)

66.      Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens, 1839)

Film:  (UK, 1948) (UK, 1968, musical) (UK, 2005)

67.      Persuasion (Jane Austen, 1817)

Film: (UK, 1995)

68.      Pickwick Papers (Charles Dickens, 1837)

Film: (UK, 1952)

69.      The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde, 1891)

Film: (US, 1945)

70.      The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James, 1881)

Film: (UK, 1996)

71.      Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen, 1813)

Film: Pride and Prejudice (US, 1940) loosely as Bride and Prejudice (US, 2004) Pride and Prejudice (UK, 2005)

72.      The Prince And Pauper (Mark Twain, 1881)

Film: (US, 1937) (US, 1978) (US, 2000)

73.      The Red And The Black (Stendhal, 1830)

Film: (Fr, 1954)

74.      The Red Badge Of Courage (Stephen Crane, 1895)

Film: (US, 1951)

75.      The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy, 1878)

Film: loosely (US, 2010)

76.      Rob Roy (Walter Scott, 1817)

Film: (US, 1995)

77.      The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850)

Film: (Ger, 1973) (US, 1995)

78.      Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen, 1811)

Film: (UK, 1995)

79.      She (H.Rider Haggard, 1887)

Film: (US, 1935) (UK, 1965)

80.      Silas Marner (George Eliot, 1861)

Film: (UK, 1985)

81.      The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)

Film: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US, 1920) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US, 1932) Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (US, 1941) loosely as Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (UK, 1971) loosely as Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (US, 1995)

82.      A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens, 1859)

Film: (US, 1935) (UK, 1958)

83.      Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy, 1891)

Film: Tess (UK, 1979)

84.      Three Men in a Boat (Jerome K. Jerome, 1889)

Film : (UK, 1933) (UK, 1956)

85.      Therese Raquin (Emile Zola, 1867)

Film: (Fr, 1953)

86.      The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas, 1844)

Film : (US, 1921) (US, 1948)  (UK, 1974) (US, 1993)

87.      The Time Machine (HG Wells)

Film: (US, 1895) (US, 1960) (US, 2002)

88.      Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)

Film: (US, 1934) (US, 1950) (UK, 1972)

89.      The Turn of the Screw (Henry James, 1898)

Film: The Innocents (1961, Jack Clayton)

90.      20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (Jules Verne, 1870) 

Film: (US, 1954)

91.      Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852)  

Film: loosely (Fr, 1965)

92.      Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray, 1847)

Film: Becky Sharp (US, 1935) Vanity Fair (US, 2004)

93.      War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy, 1869)

Film: (US, 1956) (Russ,1968)

94.      The War Of The Worlds (HG Wells, 1898)

Film: (US, 1953) (US, 2005)

95.      The Water Babies (Charles Kingsley, 1863)

Film: (UK, 1978, cartoon)

96.   Washington Square (Henry James, 1880)
Film: The Heiress (US, 1948) Washington Square (US, 1997)

97.      The Woman In White (Wilkie Collins, 1860)

Film: (US, 48)

98.      The Woodlanders (Thomas Hardy, 1887)

Film: (UK, 1987)

99.      Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte, 1847)

Film: (US, 1939) (UK, 2011)

80 Actor-Directors- with Prominent Movie Careers in Both Fields

The first kind of actor-director to spring to mind are those who, like Chaplin, Woody Allen and Kenneth Branagh, often act in and direct the same movie.

Then there are the film-makers like Robert Redford and Richard Attenborough who have achieved success in both fields but at different periods and who usually don’t mix their roles on one movie.

A third group are those who are still very much associated with one field rather than the other -e.g. Paul Newman with acting, Tarantino with directing- but have made more than just a few forays into the other field. I have included directors like Tarantino if some of their roles are fair-sized speaking parts but not the likes of Hitchcock and Oliver Stone who just have tiny, blink-and-you’ll miss-it cameos in their own films. I have included actors if they have directed at least 4 feature-length movies.

A separate list of actors who’ve directed very occasionally will be coming soon.

1. Alan Alda
2. Alan Arkin
3. Albert Brooks
4. Anthony Perkins
5. Barbra Streisand
6. Ben Stiller
7. Billy Bob Thornton
8. Burt Reynolds            
9. Buster Keaton
10. Carl Reiner                                         
11. Charlie Chaplin
12. Christopher Guest
13. Clint Eastwood
14. D.W. Griffith
15. Danny DeVito
16. Dennis Hopper
17. Edward Burns
18. Eli Roth
19. Emir Kustirica
20. Erich Von Stroheim
21. Fatty Arbuckle
22. Francois Truffaut
23. Gene Kelly
24. George Clooney                     
25. Griffin Dunne
26. Harold Ramis
27. Ida Lupino
28. Jackie Chan
29. James Toback
30. Jean Renoir
31. Jerry Lewis                 
32. John Cassavetes
33. John Huston
34. John Sayles
35. John Turturro
36. John Waters
37. Jon Favreau
38. Kenneth Branagh
39. Kevin Costner
40. Kevin Smith
41. Laurence Olivier
42. Leni Riefenstahl
43. Leonard Nimoy
44. Lionel Barrymore
45. Martin Scorsese
46. Mathieu Kassovitz
47. Maximilian Schell
48. Mel Brooks
49. Mel Gibson
50. Nanni Moretti
51. Nikita Mikhalkov
52. Orson Welles
53. Paul Bartel
54. Paul Newman            
55. Peter Bogdanovich
56. Peter Mullan
57. Quentin Tarantino
58. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
59. Richard Attenborough
60. Rob Reiner
61. Robert Duvall                                     
62. Robert Redford
63. Roger Vadim
64. Roman Polanski
65. Sean Penn                 
66. Sergei Bondarchuk
67. Sidney Poitier
68. Sofia Coppola
69. Spike Lee
70. Stanley Tucci
71. Stephen Chow
72. Sydney Pollack
73. Sylvester Stallone
74. Takeshi Kitano
75. Thomas Mccarthy
76. Victor Sjöström
77. Vittorio De Sica
78. Warren Beatty            
79. Werner Herzog
80. Woody Allen