Edith Wharton on Film

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Edith Wharton in pearls and furs, what her character Zinnia Lacrosse might have worn in The Children. Courtesy Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Mary Pickford in 1917, the year Wharton sent Charity to watch “yellow-haired beauties” at the cinema in Summer. Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Boyne (Fredric March) and Judy (Mary Brian) with those rascally children in The Marriage Playground (1930). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Archer (John Boles) and Ellen (Irene Dunne) with their teacups in The Age of Innocence (1934). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. A happy Charlotte (Bette Davis) with cousin Delia (Miriam Hopkins) in The Old Maid (1939). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. The old maids. Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Mattie (Patricia Arquette) and Ethan (Liam Neeson) alone and together by firelight in Ethan Frome (1993). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. A Scorsese tableau: Ellen (Michelle Pfeiffer) and Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) in The Age of Innocence (1993). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Scorsese’s framing of Wharton’s silent conspirators: (sitting, left to right) Mrs. Welland (Geraldine Chaplin), May (Winona Ryder), and Mrs. van der Luyden (Alexis Smith). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Lily as decoration in the House of Mirth. Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. Framed: Lily (Gillian Anderson) boxed in by Gus Trenor (Dan Aykroyd) and Simon Rosedale (Anthony LaPaglia) in The House of Mirth (2000). Publicity still courtesy of Photofest Inc. ...