David Copperfield (1935 film)

David Copperfield
1935 US theatrical poster
Directed byGeorge Cukor
Written byHugh Walpole (adaptation)
Screenplay byHoward Estabrook
Lenore J. Coffee (uncredited)[1]
Based onDavid Copperfield
1850 novel
by Charles Dickens
Produced byDavid O. Selznick
StarringW. C. Fields
Freddie Bartholomew
Lionel Barrymore
Madge Evans
Maureen O'Sullivan
Edna May Oliver
Lewis Stone
Frank Lawton
Elizabeth Allan
Roland Young
CinematographyOliver T. Marsh
Edited byRobert J. Kern
Music byHerbert Stothart
William Axt (uncredited)[1]
Production
company
Distributed byLoew's Inc.
Release date
  • January 18, 1935 (1935-01-18) (US)
Running time
129 or 133 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,073,000[2][3]
Box office$3,064,000 (worldwide rentals)[3]

David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon Charles Dickens' 1850 novel The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (though a number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted).

The story was adapted by Hugh Walpole from the Dickens novel, and the film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Howard Estabrook and Lenore J. Coffee, who was not credited.

The novel was adapted for three silent film versions prior to this, the first sound production.

  1. ^ a b Banks, Miranda J. (14 January 2015). The Writers: A History of American Screenwriters and Their Guild. ISBN 9780813571409.
  2. ^ Glancy, H. Mark When Hollywood Loved Britain: The Hollywood 'British' Film 1939-1945 (Manchester University Press, 1999)
  3. ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.

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