Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations is an exclusive set of tell-all interviews between Gardner and a ghostwriter The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo echoes the book both in content and structure. Scandals of Classic Hollywood by Anne Helen Petersen discusses Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift’s friendship (Clift was gay, and the victim of a car accident, much like the novel’s Harry Cameron. Reid cites several biographies of Old Hollywood stars as inspiration for the character of Evelyn Hugo. At the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, LGBTQ+ communities, whom the disease disproportionately affected, suffered stigmatization and became the subject of national hysteria. The Stonewall riots were a series of protests led by the gay community following a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in the Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan. The book also references the Stonewall riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, events of which Reid’s characters are at the periphery but eminently aware. Reid’s novel also focuses on the complexities of living as a famous LGBTQ+ person in the mid-20th century, a time during which being openly gay could jeopardize a person’s safety and career.
Another is Rita Hayworth, a 1940s star who, like the fictional Evelyn Hugo, changed her name and her hair color to conceal her Spanish heritage and appear whiter. Taylor was married eight times to seven different men.
Reid’s creation of the character of Evelyn Hugo draws inspiration from a few different Old Hollywood figures, in particular Elizabeth Taylor, one of the biggest stars of the 1950s.
Evelyn Hugo Marries for the Seventh Time.Meanwhile, her best-seller Daisy Jones and the Six was preemptively acquired by Amazon for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine and Circle of Confusion to produce for television, with Riley Keough and Sam Claflin starring. The author’s novel One True Loves will also be adapted for film with Andy Fickman to direct and Hamilton‘s Phillipa Soo, Shang Chi’s Simu Liu and Holidate‘s Luke Bracey starring. The Hollywood Reporter exclusively revealed that Reid’s recent novel Malibu Rising is being developed as a TV series for Hulu, with Tigelaar exec producing and Amy Talkington writing. Always the subject of tabloids, Evelyn also details for the first time her seven marriages, revealing secrets she’s held on to, who she is behind the scenes and why she chose Monique for her final confession.Įvelyn Hugo marks the latest of the Reid library to get the adaptation treatment. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo centers on reclusive, iconic Hollywood starlet Evelyn Hugo, who enlists unknown reporter Monique Grant to write her tell-all book, which will chronicle her life story and rise to fame during the golden age of Hollywood.
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