Mary S. Lovell

...swaggering subject. The narrative of Earhart's life-constructed by the screenwriters Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, who adapted biographies by Mary S. Lovell and Susan Butler-is framed by her doomed last flight. She took off from Miami...

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...- has said she cannot wait to see the movie. The rights to Mary S Lovell's biography were bought soon after it was published in 1989, but were only recently made into Hollywood film Amelia. It stars double Oscar-winner Hilary Swank, Ewan...

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...Namesake), working from an overexplanatory script by Ron Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan (based on dual biographies by Susan Butler and Mary S. Lovell), overloads the picture with a cargo of messages, so much so that she deadens her subject's...

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...(Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan, who drew partly from Susan Butler's "East to the Dawn" and Mary S. Lovell's "The Sound of Wings") begin Earhart's story near the end, as she's about to leave Miami on her ill-fated journey. They revisit...

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...made-for-TV movies. Shelf-loads of non-fiction books and at least two novels have been written about her, and more are on the way; older books, like Lovell's and Butler's, are being reissued to coincide with the movie. "There's a...

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...world public, because she was such a charismatic person," said Susan Butler, author of the 1997 biography "East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart," in a telephone interview. (The book is one of two on which the film "Amelia" is based,...

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"They opened the door in the side of the aeroplane and peered out through thin veils of rain," says Mary Lovell in The Sound of Wings, a biography of Earhart which has been reprinted to cope with demand for information on her life thanks...

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