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The Late George Apley is a 1937 novel by John Phillips Marquand. It is a satire of Boston's upper class in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title character is a Harvard-educated WASP living on Beacon Hill in downtown Boston.
The Late George Apley: Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. With Ronald Colman, Vanessa Brown, Richard Haydn, Charles Russell. George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them.
The Late George Apley is a 1947 American comedy romance film about a stuffy, upper-class Bostonian who is forced to adjust to a changing world. It starred Ronald Colman in the title role and was based on John P. Marquand's novel of the same name and the subsequent play by Marquand and George S. Kaufman.
The Late George Apley is a nicely nuanced and sophisticated novel of social criticism which uses a microscope rather than a bludgeon. Written by John P. Marquand in 1937 and winning the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for 1938, I would certainly call it a minor-major American classic.
The Late George Apley: Directed by Jules Bricken. With Joseph Cotten, Raymond Massey, Ann Harding, Joanne Woodward. Based on the screenplay by 'Philip Dunne', from the play by John P. Marquand and George S. Kaufman, based on the novel by Marquand.
After the turn of the 20th century, hidebound Bostonian George Apley (Ronald Colman) frets over what he considers to be the rash choices of his young adult children.
- Comedy
After grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and his cousin Agnes.
