Books Into Movies- Movies made From Books- June 2021

A good book can also become a good movie...sometimes it goes the other way and a good book is written as a result of a good movie. What movie have you watched from a favorite book or what book have you read that had it's beginning as a movie?

Hugh Martin: The Boy Next Door
Hugh Martin
4/5 stars
This is the very interesting autobiography of Alabama born Hugh Martin. Martin was a composer and song writer for theater and movie productions. Probably best known for writing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas and The Trolley Song, he worked with Judy Garland and many famous singers of that time period. He also served in WWII as a soldier and died in 2011 at the ripe old age of 97. This is definitely a must read for Hollywood fans.

Killing for Company - Brian Masters
Brian Masters is a British writer best known for his biographies of mass murderers, including Killing for Company written about Dennis Nilsen whose story was also a 3 part TV serial entitled DES. He also wrote The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer; She Must Have Known, about Rosemary West; and The Evil That Men Do .