THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER (1941)
“The Play is the thing” pronounced by William Shakespeare in one of his writings so long ago that we don’t know what he is talking about today. We have so many ways of listening and seeing and or listening and seeing that we do neither but what we are told. We are forgetting how to think because a lot of people are trying to do that for us, that is, the thinkers who have been taught by the thinkers in an everlasting mirror image reflecting its own image in another mirror mimicking itself infinitely. Perhaps this is what is meant by AI, that is, artificial inteligencie, and there are are some zombies that wash their brains everyday with the Television forgetting who we are. Here is an example. A classic. A short story made into a lot of medias. I want to take you to base roots, the short story itself latter turned movie. The audiobook is subtitled so you can follow along. Start there and later watch the movie and above all, think, think of what you have read and heard and latter seen. It will help you become human again. OH! And watch out for the Devil in miss Jones. (I don’t want you to get the wrong picture). (Michael Paul’s two bits)
Perhaps, before getting into the story, we should be asking ourselves who the hell is this grim good fearing looking dude Daniel Webster. I’ll be brief.
Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 — October 24, 1852) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented New Hampshire and Massachusetts in the U.S. Congress and served as the 14th and 19th U.S. Secretary of State under Presidents William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore. Webster was one of the most prominent American lawyers of the 19th century, arguing over 200 cases before the United States Supreme Court in his career. During his life, Webster had been a member of the Federalist Party, the National Republican Party, and the Whig Party. He was among the three members of the Great Triumvirate along with Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. (Read more: Daniel Webster — Wikipedia)
“The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936) is a short story by American writer Stephen Vincent Benét. He tells of a New Hampshire farmer who sells his soul to the devil and is later defended by a fictionalized Daniel Webster, a noted 19th-century American statesman, lawyer and orator. The narrative references real events in the lives of Webster and his family.
The author also adapted it in 1938 as a folk opera, with music by Douglas Stuart Moore, a fellow Yale University alumnus. (Read more: The Devil and Daniel Webster — Wikipedia)
THE AUDIO BOOK
The Devil and Daniel Webster is a 1941 supernatural film based on the 1938 play adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét’s 1936 short story “The Devil and Daniel Webster”. The play by Benét was in turn based on the libretto created by Benét for an opera adaptation of his short story with composer Douglas Moore, a project he began writing in 1937. Benét and Dan Totheroh adapted the play into the film’s screenplay. The film’s title was changed to All That Money Can Buy to avoid confusion with another film released by RKO that year, The Devil and Miss Jones, but later had the title restored on some prints. It has also been released under the titles Mr. Scratch, Daniel and the Devil and Here Is a Man. (The Devil and Daniel Webster (film) — Wikipedia)
THE FILM
I am going to conclude with a radio presentation of the story. It is something I love.
REF: 701 NOTES
The Devil and Miss Jones is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Sam Wood and starring Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, and Charles Coburn. Its plot follows a department store tycoon who goes undercover in one of his Manhattan shops to ferret union organizers, but instead becomes involved in the employees’ personal lives.
With a screenplay by Norman Krasna, the film was the product of an independent collaboration between Krasna and producer Frank Ross (Jean Arthur’s husband). Their short-lived production company released two films through RKO Radio Pictures (Miss Jones and the later A Lady Takes a Chance released in 1943). The film was well received by critics upon its release and garnered Oscar nominations for Coburn and Krasna. (Read more: The Devil and Miss Jones — Wikipedia)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn.
A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead. See the film at the following link: (701vid5) https://ok.ru/video/1105095822004
The Devil in Miss Jones is a 1973 pornographic film, written, directed and produced by Gerard Damiano and starring Georgina Spelvin and Harry Reems. It is widely regarded as a classic adult film,released during the Golden Age of Porn (1969–1984). After his 1972 success with Deep Throat, Damiano shot the film in a converted apple-packing plant in Milanville, Pennsylvania. Along with Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door, the film is associated with a time in American culture known as “porno chic”, in which adult erotic films were just beginning to be widely released, publicly discussed by celebrities (like Johnny Carson and Bob Hope) and taken seriously by film critics (like Roger Ebert). The film’s plot was inspired by the 1944 play No Exit by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The Devil in Miss Jones went on to spawn numerous remakes and sequels. (Read more: The Devil in Miss Jones — Wikipedia) (701vid6)
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