H. E. Bates Lydia". His most popular creation was the Larkin family in "The Darling Buds of May". Pop Larkin and his family were inspired by a colourful character seen in a local shop in Kent by Bates and his family when on holiday. The man (probably Wiltshire trader William Dell, also on holiday) turned up to the shop with a huge wad of rubber-banded bank notes and proceeded to spoil his trailer load of children with Easter eggs and ice creams. The television adaptation, produced after his death by his son Richard and based on these stories, was a tremendous success. It
The Darling of Paris a success of public and critical acclamation on Rio society. The highest-grossing releases in September on Rio: The Darling of Paris The Darling of Paris is a 1917 American silent romantic drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara and Glen White. It was a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame" by Victor Hugo. It was produced by William Fox. "The Darling of Paris" was later re-edited from six to five reels and re-released by Fox on February 16, 1919. The film is now considered lost. The wealthy girl Esmeralda (Theda