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BUtterfield 8 (1935) is a realist novel by John O'Hara. It is a roman à clef loosely based upon the life of socialite and flapper Starr Faithfull, whose unsolved death in 1931 became a tabloid sensation. [1] [2] Reviews were mixed but the novel was a best-seller. It was adapted for a 1960 movie of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and ...
March 27, 2014. BUtterfield 8 – the camel-case title references retired telephone exchanges – is O’Hara’s ‘ripped from the headlines’ novel. A real murder inspired the novel. Elizabeth Taylor as Gloria Wandrous earned her her first Oscar in 1960 for the 1935 novel adapted to the big screen.
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Aug 21, 2013 · The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.
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About BUtterfield 8. The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York’s speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great ...
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Jan 1, 2008 · A bestseller on its first publication, "BUtterfield 8" is the glittering story of a 1930s glamour girl whose ill-starred entanglement with a respectable married man is set against a backdrop of Manhattan bars and bedrooms. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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Aug 21, 2013 · The bestselling novel that became an Oscar-winning film starring Elizabeth Taylor about New York's speakeasy generation A masterpiece of American fiction and a bestseller upon its publication in 1935, BUtterfield 8 lays bare with brash honesty the unspoken and often shocking truths that lurked beneath the surface of a society still reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.
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BUtterfield 8. John O'Hara. Random House, Dec 2, 2008 - Fiction - 240 pages. ‘More than any other American novelist, O'Hara has both reflected his times and captured the unique individual for generations to come’ LA Times'On this Sunday morning in May, this girl who was later to be the cause of a sensation in New York awoke much too early ...
