The Little Foxes (1941) Bette Davis, William Wyler, Herbert Marshall, & Lillian Hellman

<b><br /></b>Book Vs. Movie:<br />The Little Foxes<br />The Lillian Hellman 1939 Play Vs. the 1941 Bette Davis Film<br /><br /><br />Playwright <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lillian-Hellman" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Lillian Hellman</a> is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th Century who had a complicated life filled with love affairs and massive success and was the toast of Broadway for works such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Foxes" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Little Foxes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Children’s Hour</a> and <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036515/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Watch on the Rhine</a>. She was also a House Committee on Un-American Activities (<a href="https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/huac" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HUAC</a>) pariah and was called a liar by author Mary McCarthy on The Dick Cavett Show in 1979. Between controversies and celebrations, she had a 30-year relationship with fellow writer Dashiell Hammett and had many of her works adapted into film. The New Orleans native lived HARD in her 79 years before passing in 1984. <br /><br />The Little Foxes is a semi-autobiographical tale of a 1900 Southern family scheming to gain wealth by any means possible. Regina Hubbard Giddens (played by the legendary Talulah Bankhead on Broadway) is a woman who is married to a man she despises (Horace) and has two brothers (Benjamin and Oscar) who have family money that she wants to get her hands on. His many health problems interfere with her good time. <br /><br />The title comes from the Song of Solomon of the King James Bible: “Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.” <br /><br /><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0943758/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">William Wyler</a> directed the 1941 movie and follow