Fredric March as Mark Twain? Well, it ain’t Hal Holbrook.
This week on “Picture Perfect,” the focus is on real-life writers as characters in the movies.
Good writers captivate so completely with their words, it’s easy to imagine that they must lead very colorful lives – all the more so when they are given the big screen treatment.
Music lends an extra dimension to the fictionalized Brontë sisters, in “Devotion” (Erich Wolfgang Korngold); Iris Murdoch, in “Iris” (James Horner); the Bard of Avon, in “Shakespeare in Love” (Stephen Warbeck); and Samuel Clemens, in “The Adventures of Mark Twain” (Max Steiner).
Writers are such characters, aren’t they? Join me for an hour of cinematic scribes. Everything’s writ large, this Friday evening at 6:00 EST, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.