in the back of every published author's mind is a Hollywood book deal.
Are there many instances in the silent era (with a deal anticipated, or already in hand)
where a book, or play, was written specifically to be filmed?
Not a novelized, or photoplay, edition of a film,
but rather, perhaps, a novel/drama written to suit a star, director, or studio.
Eric Segal's Love Story was almost/"sort of" like that-
Paramount asked that his screenplay be novelized and published (2/14/1970) long before the film's release (12/15/1970).
The only silent era example I can think of- but surely there must be others-
is of a lost film fashioned from publisher George P. Putnam's brainchild, Bobbed Hair.
Bobbed Hair was a pre-packaged "stunt" novel written for serialization by Collier's Magazine
and filming by Warners/Marie Prevost (see the dj's back flap):
it was co-authored by George Agnew Chamberlain, George Barr McCutcheon, Robert Gordon Anderson, George Palmer Putnam,
Alexander Woollcott, Meade Minnigerode, John V. A. Weaver, Kermit Roosevelt, Dorothy Parker, Louis Bromfield, Gerald Mygatt,
Carolyn Wells, Rube Goldberg, Bernice Brown, Wallace Irwin, Frank Craven, H. C. Witwer, Elsie Janis, Edward Streeter, and Sophie Kerr.
George Putnam was later the publisher of, and publicist for, his wife, Amelia Earhart.
If you want a giant sized dj image- perhaps for your own copy of the book-click this link, then click the image that appears.
