Gary Cooper
Joseph B. `'Joe'` Chapin
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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.
Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. It tells the story of Joseph Chapin, an ambitious man who desires to become president of the United States, and his relationships with his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress.
With Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Geraldine Fitzgerald. At his father's funeral, Joe 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 and eased only by alcohol.
In Apr 1945, outside Ten North Frederick Street in Gibbsville, Pennsylvania, a newscaster reports on the funeral of prominent attorney Joseph P. Chapin. As the governor, district attorney and other dignitaries file into the house, Chapin's widow Edith addresses the gathering.
The story is essentially about Joseph B. Chapin, a distinguished lawyer and member of high society during the 1920's and 1930's in the small city of Gibbsville, Pennsylvania. Ten North Frederick street is a large house that the Chapin family have lived in for about 100 years.
Jun 24, 2014 · With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
