A Farewell to Arms dictionary–held upside down. The Italian translation had in fact already been prepared illegally in 1943 by Fernanda Pivano, leading to her arrest in Turin. A Farewell to Arms was met with favorable criticism and is considered one of Hemingway's best literary works. Gore Vidal wrote of the text: "... a work of ambition, in which can be seen the beginning of the careful, artful, immaculate idiocy of tone that since has marked ... [Hemingway's] prose." The last line of the 1929 "New York Times" review reads: "It is a moving and beautiful book." However, since publication, A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) grand-scale love story, it's all just a meaningless protracted spectacle." After this film, David O. Selznick left the movies completely, producing no other films. The movie earned an estimated $5 million in North American rentals and by the end of 1958 had made worldwide rentals of $6.9 million. Fox made some money on the movie but Selznick did not recover his costs. Vittorio De Sica was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor but lost to Red Buttons for "Sayonara". A Farewell to Arms (1957 film) A Farewell to Arms is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color CinemaScope drama