Edith Wharton - Turner Classic Movies

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Birth Place

New York, New York, USA

Born

January 24, 1862

Died

August 11, 1937

Cause of Death

Stroke

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The House of Mirth (2000)

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Passion's Way (2004)

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The House of Mirth (2000)

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The Age Of Innocence (1993)

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Ethan Frome (1993)

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The Children (1990)

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Age Of Innocence, The (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Their Strong Right Hand

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Every Shot Will Make You Richer

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

The House of Mirth (2000)

Source Material

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Passion's Way (2004)

Source Material (From Novel)

The House of Mirth (2000)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Age Of Innocence (1993)

Source Material (From Novel)

Ethan Frome (1993)

Source Material (From Novel)

The Children (1990)

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Misc. Crew (Special)

The Buccaneers (1995)

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Life Events

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Age Of Innocence, The (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Their Strong Right Hand Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) in a more cordial parting with Countess Ellen (Michelle Pfeiffer), with May (Winona Ryder) and her mother (Geraldine Chaplin), Joanne Woodward narrates to his dinner, with his mother and sister (Sian Phillips, Carolyn Farina) and Jackson (Alec McCowen), in Martin Scorsese’s The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Every Shot Will Make You Richer Civil War troop train leaving Philadelphia, Charlotte (Bette Davis) seeks Clem (George Brent), to the surprise of her cousin Delia (Miriam Hopkins), to whom he was once engaged, and who is now married to a munitions manufacturer, in The Old Maid, 1939, from an Edith Wharton novel.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Socially Important Opening the first of two famous pairings of formidable actors (see Old Acquaintance, 1943), Miriam Hopkins as pre-nuptial Delia, Bette Davis her cousin, de-facto sister, Charlotte, Cecilia Loftus their mutual grandmother, Donald Crisp the family doctor, in The Old Maid, 1939, from the Edith Wharton novel.

Age Of Innocence, The (1993) -- (Movie Clip) The Talk Will Be Of Little Else Martin Scorsese’s opening, shooting at the Philadelphia Academy Of Music, introducing Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), gossips Lefferts and Jackson (Richard E. Grant, Alec McCowen), May (Winona Ryder), Mrs Welland (Geraldine Chaplin) and Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Age Of Innocence, The (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Shattered By A Whisper From the opening opera sequence, with one of a series of single takes as remarkable as any by director Martin Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus, with Joanne Woodward’s enthralling narration from the Edith Wharton novel, following Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Age Of Innocence, The (1993) -- (Movie Clip) Tell Me What You're Running From Director Martin Scorsese breaks with narrative convention, with Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) after attending a play, involving yellow roses, with Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), then joining her upstate, their desire still repressed, when Beaufort (Stuart Wilson) appears, in The Age Of Innocence, 1993.

Old Maid, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Since You Went Out West First scene after a history montage ending the Civil War and killing their former almost-mutual boyfriend, now-married Delia (Miriam Hopkins) visits the orphanage run by cousin Charlotte (Bette Davis), promoting her brother-in-law, Marlene Burnett the featured waif, in The Old Maid, 1939.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Straight Up And Down-ness The Wellands (Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Yost, Julie Haydon as "May"), and fiance` Newland (John Boles) with Grandmother (Helen Westley), worry about cousin Countess Olenska (Irene Dunne), who arrives with Beaufort (Lionel Atwill), in RKO's 1934 version of Edith Wharton's The Age Of Innocence.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Past Generation Stuff Opening with an ambitious snapshot of contemporary New York, we meet John Boles playing his matured version of Edith Wharton's Newland Archer, Kane Richmond his impetuous grandson, in Broadway director Philip Moeller's treatment of The Age Of Innocence, 1934, co-starring Irene Dunne.

Age Of Innocence, The (1934) -- (Movie Clip) Rude Little Wretch An 1870's New York society ball, scandalized American-born Polish Countess Olenska (Irene Dunne) is introduced, with grandmother Mingott (Helen Westley), uncouth Beaufort (Lionel Atwill) and ex-playmate Newland Archer (John Boles), in the 1934 version of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence.

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