A Farewell to Arms | Adaptations
A Farewell to Arms was made into film twice — in 1932, with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes playing Frederic and Catherine, and again in 1958, with Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones. Typical failure in Hollywood's version of a Hemingway work is suggested by the alternate ending of the first version, in which Catherine survives. Many other Hemingway works, including a number of the stories, have been adapted to film. The general verdict has been that, at best, the films fail to capture the subtlety and complexity of the work and, at worst, they are travesties of Hemingway's world.
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