Ten North Frederick

Ten North Frederick (1958)

JOHN O'HARA'S HOTLY-DISCUSSED BEST-SELLER...OF HOW THEY SINNED AGAINST EACH OTHER AND AGAINST THEMSELVES!

After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife, eased only by alcohol. But it starts to emerge that he had in fact one brief and unsuspected period of happiness and love.

Date of release
1958-05-22
TMDB
7.1 / 10 (15)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Romance, Drama
Director
Philip Dunne

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: Golden Leopard

Ten North Frederick is a 1958 American drama film in CinemaScope written and directed by Philip Dunne and starring Gary Cooper. The screenplay is based on the 1955 novel of the same name by John O'Hara.

Production

The novel was published in 1955. The New York Times wrote that "the whole country will be reading... [it] this winter... it is the most challenging novel of the year." The Los Angeles Times called it "extraordinary."

The book was later banned by Detroit police.

O'Hara originally set a price of $500,000 for the film rights in December, 1955. In April 1956 he sold it to 20th Century Fox for $300,000. O'Hara then entered into a screenwriting contract with the studio, to do three scripts over three years working on The Best Things in Life Are Free and The Bravados.

The movie was assigned to Phillip Dunne to write and direct. "I thought it was O'Hara's best novel", said Dunne. "I thought it had great compassion in it."

Dunne decided to focus his script on Joe Chapin's affair with his daughter's friend which only took up a few pages of the novel. He decided to make that the centrepiece of the script and have everything build up to and flow on from that. In the original novel Joe's daughter has an abortion but this was changed in the script to a miscarriage due to censorship concerns.

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