HBO screened a movie based on the Gellhorn-Hemingway marriage, May 28, 2012. The film stars Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen, and has been shown at the Cannes Film Festival. If you can only read part of this series, I recommend segments 2 and 3 as the meatiest and likely to be most surprising, but part 4 has the money quote from Gustav Regler, demonstrating EH’s submission to Communism, and also suggesting mental instability. The movie, directed by Philip Kaufman, is remarkably pornographic and distorts history, meantime making Gellhorn a Great Woman and pioneer war correspondent, while Hemingway is a slobbering idiot for much of the script. In my view, it parrots a common hot pink line on the lead up to World War 2.
http://clarespark.com/2011/06/30/ernest-hemingway-and-gellhorn-in-china-1941-1/
http://clarespark.com/2011/06/30/ernest-hemingway-and-gellhorn-in-china-1941-2/
http://clarespark.com/2011/06/30/ernest-hemingway-and-gellhorn-in-china-1941-3/
http://clarespark.com/2011/06/30/ernest-hemingway-and-gellhorn-in-china-1941-4/
[...] Such journalists as Theodore White and Edgar Snow transmitted the Maoist message to American radicals, where they might have received support from a communist-sympathetic faction in the U.S. Department of State, but I doubt from Morgenthau. (For details, see http://clarespark.com/2011/06/30/links-to-review-essay-on-hemingway-spy-mission-to-china/.) [...]
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