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    Elinor Glyn (née Sutherland; 17 October 1864 – 23 September 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction, which was...
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    novella of the same name, republished in "It" and Other Stories (1927), by Elinor Glyn, who adapted the story and appears in the film as herself. The film was...
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    Three Weeks is a 1907 erotic romance novel by Elinor Glyn. Paul Verdayne, wealthy English nobleman in his early twenties, is caught embracing the parson's...
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    (d. 1889), Lucy moved with them and her sister, the future novelist Elinor Glyn, to Saint Helier on the Isle of Jersey. Lucy acquired her love of fashion...
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    can be a quality of the mind as well as a physical attraction. — Elinor Glyn (1927) Glyn first rose to fame as the author of the scandalous 1907 bestseller...
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  • and film actress Marion Davies, fellow actor Charlie Chaplin, writer Elinor Glyn, columnist Louella Parsons, and actress Margaret Livingston. The film...
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    invited the popular British novelist Elinor Glyn to come to Russia to write a Russian-based story. She told Glyn: "Everyone always writes books about...
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  • The Price of Things is a 1930 British crime drama film directed by Elinor Glyn and starring Elissa Landi, Stewart Rome and Mona Goya. It was made as an...
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    the behaviour of American girls made recently in the Cosmopolitan by Elinor Glyn. It admitted the existence of petting parties but considered the activities...
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  • Halcyon, a comic book published by Image Comics Halcyone, a 1912 novel by Elinor Glyn Halcyon (dialogue), a short dialogue attributed to Plato The Halcyon...
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    Alan Crosland. The movie is based on the 1907 novel of the same name by Elinor Glyn, and the title refers to the length of an affair by the Queen of Sardalia...
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    fellow at Lady Margaret Hall Elinor D. Gregg (1886–1970), American public nurse Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), British novelist Elinor Goldschmied (1910–2009),...
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    Lane Chandler, directed by Clarence G. Badger, based on a 1905 novel by Elinor Glyn, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film had one sequence filmed...
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    Hawks and written by Ernest Vajda. The film is based on a novella by Elinor Glyn who based her story on the 1928 real-life disappearance of Belgian banker...
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  • by Elinor Glyn Three Weeks, a 1914 film presented by B. S. Moss Three Weeks (film), a 1924 film drama directed by Alan Crosland, based on the Glyn book...
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    and Gloria Swanson. It is based on the 1906 novel of the same name by Elinor Glyn. Beyond the Rocks was long considered lost but a nitrate print of the...
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    opposite Warner Baxter in a screen adaptation of Such Men Are Dangerous by Elinor Glyn. The story was adapted to the screen by Fox Film. Johnson's final film...
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    conclusively in its favour. After a long affair with the romantic novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married the former Grace Elvina Hinds in January 1917. She was...
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    This film was the follow-up to Samuel Goldwyn's Three Weeks, written by Elinor Glyn, and starring Aileen Pringle, one of the biggest moneymakers at the time...
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  • Party. As Juliette Evangeline Glyn, she was the daughter of Clayton Louis Glyn, a barrister, and his wife Elinor Glyn. She was educated in Eastbourne...
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    Sheila Whispers: An Elephant's Tale Half Tusk Voice 2001 The Cat's Meow Elinor Glyn 2003 Standing Room Only Last in Line Short film 2004 EuroTrip Hostel...
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    Mildred Harris, Greta Garbo, George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Elinor Glyn, Helen Keller, H.G. Wells, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Fritz Kreisler, Tony...
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    Beyond the Rocks is a 1906 novel by Elinor Glyn. The novel was later adapted into a 1922 silent film in which Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino (credited...
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  • directed by Elinor Glyn and starring Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi and Helen Haye. It was made at Elstree Studios and based on one of Glyn's own novels....
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  • lecturer at the University of Oxford Elinor Glyn (1864–1943), British novelist and scriptwriter Frederick Glyn, 4th Baron Wolverton (1864–1932), British...
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  • issued 1896) The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio (1894) Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn (1909) Many Marriages by Sherwood Anderson (1923) Antic Hay by Aldous...
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    This was a slightly risqué union, as Lucy was a divorcée whose sister, Elinor Glyn, was a notorious romance novelist. As a sportsman, Duff-Gordon was most...
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  • well early Hollywood figures such as Charlie Chaplin, Marion Davies, Elinor Glyn, Mabel Normand, and William Desmond Taylor, whose 1922 murder Vidal presents...
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    indefinable but powerful sex appeal publicized by Elinor Glyn in her famous—and, at the time, infamous— book, It. Glyn adapted her novel for the screen, for the...
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    was inspired in her early work by the novels of the Edwardian author Elinor Glyn, whom she idolised and eventually befriended. According to an obituary...
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