And tonight's trivia question is...

[chickenfeet]

Sponsored by being sucked into the Folio Society's spring sale by the offer of all of Daphne du Maurier's Cornish novels...

What is the connection between Daphne du Maurier and A Bridge Too Far?

Comments

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

film, book, or subject thereof?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

All of the above really but principally the event itself.

[oursin.livejournal.com]

Her husband was a significant figure in the BtF events(? as eny fule no? I knew this before the TV programme about DdM which featured interminable shots of her gazing at the wild waves or her typewriter, though at least included her and Gertrude Lawrence being sapphic)

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Her husband was supposedly the one who actually said it was "a bridge too far".

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Correct. Her husband was Lt/Gen Boy Browning who commanded First Airborne Corps during Market Garden. In almost the last line of the film he is shown saying"I told monty that it might be a bridge too far".

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

Apparently she hated how he was portrayed in the film.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Good Lord, she was Still With Us when that turkey came out?

[buzzy-bee.livejournal.com]

She only died about ten years ago I think...

fx: checks wikipedia...

Ah, OK. 20 years ago. Last Sunday.