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Ten North Frederick is a novel by John O'Hara, published by Random House in 1955. It tells the story of Joseph Chapin, an ambitious man who desires to become president of the United States, and his relationships with his patrician wife, two rebellious children, and mistress.
Ten North Frederick is a 1958 American drama film in CinemaScope written and directed by Philip Dunne and starring Gary Cooper. The screenplay is based on the 1955 novel of the same name by John O'Hara.
Ten North Frederick: Directed by Philip Dunne. With Gary Cooper, Diane Varsi, Suzy Parker, Geraldine Fitzgerald. At his father's funeral, Joe Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated by a selfish and dissatisfied wife and eased only by alcohol.
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- Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Philip Dunne
- 1958-07-11
Ten North Frederick is an obituary of a novel… About the dead, either well or nothing… John O’Hara tells all… A pillar of society is dead… The tale starts with the funeral… The daughter looked more like the mother.
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- Hardcover
A classic portrait of mid-century America by the writer whom Fran Lebowitz called “the real F. Scott Fitzgerald”. The novel follows the life of Joe Chapin, a small-town lawyer with ambitions to be president, and his conflicts with his wife, children, and mistress.
- Paperback
Ten North Frederick | Rotten Tomatoes. 1958 1h 42m Drama. Joe Chapin (Gary Cooper) is a successful middle-aged businessman with a shrewdly ambitious wife, Edith (Geraldine Fitzgerald). Edith...
- Drama
Jun 24, 2014 · With black wit and penetrating insight, Ten North Frederick stands with Richard Yates’ Revolutionary Road, Evan S. Connell’s Mr. Bridge and Mrs. Bridge, the stories of John Cheever, and Mad Men as a brilliant portrait of the personal and political hypocrisy of mid-century America.
