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Adaptations have enriched Hollywood's bloodstream since the nickelodeons fed off the dime novel. In the '30s, Liberty magazine or Collier's or the Saturday Evening Post overflowed with stories by the first rank of American writers, virtually there for the taking. And the movies took them by the dozens.

Adaptations have enriched Hollywood's bloodstream since the nickelodeons fed off the dime novel. In the '30s, Liberty magazine or Collier's or the Saturday Evening Post overflowed with stories by the first rank of American writers, virtually there for the taking. And the movies took them by the dozens.