Written on the Wind is a 1956 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. Zuckerman shifted the locale from North Carolina to Texas, made the source of the family wealth oil rather than tobacco, and changed all th...
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Written on the Wind is a 1956 American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk. The screenplay by George Zuckerman was based on Robert Wilder's 1945 novel of the same name, a thinly disguised account of the real-life scandal involving torch singer Libby Holman and her husband, tobacco heir Zachary Smith Reynolds. Zuckerman shifted the locale from North Carolina to Texas, made the source of the family wealth oil rather than tobacco, and changed all the character names.
Self-destructive dipso-nymphomaniac Marylee (Malone) and her insecure alcoholic brother Kyle (Stack) are the offspring of Texas oil baron Jasper Hadley (Robert Keith). Spoiled by their inherited wealth and crippled by their personal demons, neither is able to sustain a successful personal relationship.
Problems ensue when Kyle's impulsive marriage to New York City executive secretary Lucy Moore (Bacall) begins to crumble and his childhood friend, and Marylee's long-time infatuation, Mitch Wayne (Hudson), a Hadley Oil...
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