A Tale of Two Cities

film by Conway [1935]

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  • The Girl from Missouri
    In Jack Conway: Heyday of the 1930s

    …made arguably his finest film, A Tale of Two Cities, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic novel. The lavish David O. Selznick production featured Ronald Colman as the heroic Sydney Carton, Basil Rathbone as the aristocrat Marquis St. Evrémonde, and Blanche Yurka as the villainous Madame Defarge.

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  • David O. Selznick
    In David O. Selznick

    >A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938). However, he is best remembered for Gone with the Wind (1939), an adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s best seller that starred Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. It won 10

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