The Mating Game (film) The Mating Game (film) The Mating Game (1959) is an MGM Metrocolor film in CinemaScope directed by George Marshall, and starring Debbie Reynolds, Tony Randall and Paul Douglas in his final film role. Reynolds sings the title song during the opening credits. The film was written by William Roberts very loosely based on a British novel, "The Darling Buds of May" by H. E. Bates, which was later adapted into a more faithful 1991–93 British miniseries, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones in the role that Debbie Reynolds plays in the film. The film has been featured on Turner Classic Movies, and was
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Wakeman, John (ed.) "World Authors 1950-1970", H. W. Wilson, New York (1975). Fuchs, Miriam (ed) "Marguerite Young, Our Darling" (Dalkey Archive Press, 1994) Miss MacIntosh, My Darling Miss MacIntosh, My Darling is a novel by Marguerite Young. She has described it as "an exploration of the illusions, hallucinations, errors of judgment in individual lives, the central scene of the novel being an opium addict's paradise." The novel is one of the longest ever written. Young began writing the novel in 1947, expecting it would take two years. She worked on it daily, and did not finish until 1964. Young has