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Adapted from J. D. Salinger's 1948 short story " Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut ", this remains the only authorized film adaptation of Salinger's work ; the filmmakers ' infidelity to his story famously precluded any possibility of film versions of other Salinger works, including The Catcher in the Rye.
After being disappointed, according to biographer Ian Hamilton, when " rumblings from Hollywood " over his 1943 short story " The Varioni Brothers " came to nothing, J. D. Salinger did not hesitate when independent producer Samuel Goldwyn offered to buy the film rights to " Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.
He also produced a series of stories based on the Our Gang film series, provided covers for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, illustrated the aforementioned adaptations of two Disney animated features, drew stories featuring Raggedy Ann and Andy and Uncle Wiggily, wrote and drew a lengthy series of comic books promoting a bread company and featuring a character called " Peter Wheat ", and did a series of pantomime ( i. e. without dialogue ) two-page stories featuring Roald Dahl's Gremlins for Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 34 – 41.
*" Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut "
Howard Roger Garis, ( – ) was an American author, best known for a series of books, published under his own name, that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit.
The first Uncle Wiggily story appeared January 10, 1910 in the Newark News.
For almost four decades, the newspaper published an Uncle Wiggily story by Garis every day except Sunday, and the series was eventually nationally syndicated.
By the time Garis retired from the newspaper in 1947, he had written more than 15, 000 Uncle Wiggily stories.
Many of his books, especially the Uncle Wiggily books, are still widely read and are readily available over the internet.
Milton Bradley produced an Uncle Wiggily board game in 1967 and again in 1988.
Garis ' son, Roger Garis, penned a biography of the writing Garis family My Father Was Uncle Wiggily ( McGraw-Hill, 1966 ), as well as writing several books under his own name, and pseudonyms.
# Uncle Wiggily at the Seashore
# Uncle Wiggily in the Country
# Uncle Wiggily in the Woods
# Uncle Wiggily on the Farm
# Uncle Wiggily and Baby Bunty
# Uncle Wiggily on Sugar Island
# The Uncle Wiggily Book
# Uncle Wiggily ’ s Surprises
Uncle Wiggily Longears is the main character of a series of children's stories by American author Howard R. Garis.
Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily story every day ( except Sundays ) for more than 30 years, and published 79 books within the author's lifetime.
Uncle Wiggily, an engaging elderly rabbit, is lame from rheumatism.
Uncle Wiggily is only one of many recurring characters in the series.
For example, Uncle Wiggily once used an umbrella to foil the Skillery Skallery Alligator by thrusting it into the creature's mouth and opening it, thus preventing his biting the old gentleman rabbit.

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He began recording around Los Angeles in 1982 as a member of the Radio Crew, and also Uncle Jam's Army.
" In Greece she also appeared in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and Strindberg's Father.
" Baum mentions his characters ' distaste for a Hopi snake dance in Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John, but also deplores the horrible situation of Indian Reservations.
Peake also wrote poetry and literary nonsense in verse form, short stories for adults and children ( Letters from a Lost Uncle ), stage and radio plays, and Mr Pye, a relatively tightly-structured novel in which God implicitly mocks the evangelical pretensions and cosy world-view of the eponymous hero.
His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and Grasses of a Thousand Colors ; he also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre with Andre Gregory, and scripted Vanya on 42nd Street, a film adaptation of Anton Chekov's play Uncle Vanya.
The story also made an appearance in Nights with Uncle Remus in 1883, both by Joel Chandler Harris, in which the pigs were replaced by Brer Rabbit.
He also played the title role in the television series My Uncle Silas, based on the short stories by H. E. Bates, about a roguish but lovable poacher-cum-farm labourer looking after his great-nephew.
He also earned a slightly more familiar nickname after ending a 1949 broadcast with a brief ad-libbed remark to children watching the show: " Listen to your Uncle Miltie and go to bed.
The phrase " Uncle Tom " has also become an epithet for a person who is slavish and excessively subservient to perceived authority figures, particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people ; or any person perceived to be a participant in the oppression of their own group.
He has also branched out as a record producer, having produced such albums as The Mission's album Children, The Datsuns ' second album Outta Sight, Outta Mind ( 2004 ) and Uncle Earl's Waterloo, Tenneesee album of Old-time music, released in March, 2007 on Rounder Records.
* Cosmo Allegretti as Mr. Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose ( both of which he also created ), Dennis the Apprentice, Miss Frog, Mr. Whispers, Dancing Bear, Grandfather Clock, Uncle Ralph, was the voice of Aniforms puppet TV Fred ( a live-action on-screen puppet that appeared behind the blackboard in the Treasure House ), and was the artist behind the Magic Drawing Board.
Uncle Remus is also in the vicinity, and he is shocked when Br ' er Rabbit and several of the other characters from his stories appear in front of them and interact with the children.
" I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person ," Disney is quoted as saying, " as should also the young boy to whom Harris ' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch.
Finally, months ago, we ' took our foot in hand ,' in the words of Uncle Remus, and jumped into our most venturesome but also more pleasurable undertaking.
Not only did Baskett get the part of the butterfly's voice, but also the voice of Br ' er Fox and the live-action role of Uncle Remus as well.
In the same vein, Time magazine, also mentioned above, cautioned that " the picture was bound to land its maker in hot water ," because the character of Uncle Remus was " bound to enrage all educated Negroes and a number of damyankees.
Castellaneta was also a regular participant in The Ron Petke and His Dead Uncle Show, a radio show at NIU.
Because Stowe saw motherhood as the " ethical and structural model for all of American life " and also believed that only women had the moral authority to save the United States from the demon of slavery, another major theme of Uncle Tom's Cabin is the moral power and sanctity of women.
Uncle Tom's Cabin is written in the sentimental and melodramatic style common to 19th century sentimental novels and domestic fiction ( also called women's fiction ).
She also said that the popular domestic novels of the 19th century, including Uncle Tom's Cabin, were remarkable for their " intellectual complexity, ambition, and resourcefulness "; and that Uncle Tom's Cabin offers a " critique of American society far more devastating than any delivered by better-known critics such as Hawthorne and Melville.
In the book, Stowe discusses each of the major characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin and cites " real life equivalents " to them while also mounting a more " aggressive attack on slavery in the South than the novel itself had.
" Like the novel, A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin was also a best-seller.
Uncle Tom's Cabin also created great interest in the United Kingdom.
As the first widely read political novel in the United States, Uncle Tom's Cabin greatly influenced development of not only American literature but also protest literature in general.

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