HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter signed ("Papa") to Fred Zinnemann (1990-1997), 8 August 1956. 1 page, 4to, on Finca Vigia stationery, some minor chipping along edges away from text . [ With :] Photograph inscribed and signed: "For Freddy and Renee, one small, edible, non-rubber fish, with love from Papa." 8 x 10 in. black and white glossy . "STORIES ARE HARD TO WRITE AND IT IS GOOD FOR ME...WHY COULD I NOT HAVE BEEN BORN A MORE NOBLE OLD MAN?" "HAVE MANY FASCINATING THINGS WRONG WITH ME BUT NO TIME TO FOOL WITH THEM IN THIS LIFE." A late Hemingway letter to noted Hollywood director Fred Zinnemann, discussing the film adaptation of The Sun Also Rises and a prolific period of short-story writing. He congratulates Zinnemann on not getting involved with the film adaptation of The Sun Also Rises (released in 1957), and promises not to write any "atrocity stories" about the picture: "You must be as sick of them as I am." He boasts of being very productive, writing five short stories, and relishing the work-discipline. His productivity also helps "to get the slime off." Hemingway expresses frustration about being unable to "get into my book again," and jokes he will go to Africa to work as a wildlife ranger. He worries about his wife's anemia (and some of the unorthodox remedies he administered to her), and says "Have many fascinating things wrong with me but no time to fool with them in this life." He closes with a rueful question: "Why could I not have been born a noble old man?" and remembers a graphic act of violence against a playmate in his childhood. In all, a rich, at times disturbing picture of Hemingway near the end of his life. Sun Also Rises was not the only instance where Zinnemann bailed out on a Hemingway adaptation. He was initially the director on The Old Man and the Sea, but when he was unable to shoot the film on location in the open water as he wished, he handed the director's baton over to John Sturges. It "made little sense," he said afterwards, "to proceed with a robot pretending to be a fish in a studio tank pretending to be the Gulf Stream with an actor pretending to be a fisherman." Not published in Baker, Selected Letters . (2)
HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Typed letter signed ("Papa") to Fred Zinnemann (1990-1997), 8 August 1956. 1 page, 4to, on Finca Vigia stationery, some minor chipping along edges away from text . [ With :] Photograph inscribed and signed: "For Freddy and Renee, one small, edible, non-rubber fish, with love from Papa." 8 x 10 in. black and white glossy . "STORIES ARE HARD TO WRITE AND IT IS GOOD FOR ME...WHY COULD I NOT HAVE BEEN BORN A MORE NOBLE OLD MAN?" "HAVE MANY FASCINATING THINGS WRONG WITH ME BUT NO TIME TO FOOL WITH THEM IN THIS LIFE." A late Hemingway letter to noted Hollywood director Fred Zinnemann, discussing the film adaptation of The Sun Also Rises and a prolific period of short-story writing. He congratulates Zinnemann on not getting involved with the film adaptation of The Sun Also Rises (released in 1957), and promises not to write any "atrocity stories" about the picture: "You must be as sick of them as I am." He boasts of being very productive, writing five short stories, and relishing the work-discipline. His productivity also helps "to get the slime off." Hemingway expresses frustration about being unable to "get into my book again," and jokes he will go to Africa to work as a wildlife ranger. He worries about his wife's anemia (and some of the unorthodox remedies he administered to her), and says "Have many fascinating things wrong with me but no time to fool with them in this life." He closes with a rueful question: "Why could I not have been born a noble old man?" and remembers a graphic act of violence against a playmate in his childhood. In all, a rich, at times disturbing picture of Hemingway near the end of his life. Sun Also Rises was not the only instance where Zinnemann bailed out on a Hemingway adaptation. He was initially the director on The Old Man and the Sea, but when he was unable to shoot the film on location in the open water as he wished, he handed the director's baton over to John Sturges. It "made little sense," he said afterwards, "to proceed with a robot pretending to be a fish in a studio tank pretending to be the Gulf Stream with an actor pretending to be a fisherman." Not published in Baker, Selected Letters . (2)
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