Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes

 I finished Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes several days ago. Since I still am doing this on a phone I will leave you with some short impressions:

1. Not quite as melodramatic as The Children's Hour and with a better structure than Days to Come.
2. Regina is a dynamite character.
3. Hellman knew Faulkner and Hellman's Hubbards makes me think of Faulkner's Snopeses but better heeled.
4. It would be worth seeing but after watching Laura Linney I wonder if she is not channeling Bette Davis who may have affected by Tallulah Bankhead.

Video of Laura Linney's

performance

The Little Foxes Revived:

The Hubbards represent the beginning, in 1900, of the industrialization of the South. Birdie and Horace represent “good families” in decline, the planters, ruined by the Civil War. It is hard to think of Regina and her brothers as Southern. They differ from Faulkner’s Snopes family in that there is little of the rural in their nature or in their cunning....

Review: Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes” is Both Daring & Beautiful (West Palm Beach 2017)

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Dramaturge Notes on The Little Foxes

sch 4/29/22