Miss Lonelyhearts | Movies & Media Adaptations

Miss Lonelyhearts Adaptations

Although West did not work on it in Hollywood, Miss Lonelyhearts was eventually adapted into a B motion picture, Advice to the Lovelorn (20th Century Pictures, 1933), with little resemblance to the book. The movie It Could Happen to You (Republic Productions, 1937) is a similarly distant B adaptation, combining A Cool Million with Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. The Day of the Locust (Paramount, 1975) was a well-received big-budget movie earning several Oscar nominations.