A Farewell to Arms stature. The book became his first best-seller, and has been called "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I." The novel has been adapted a number of times, initially for the stage in 1930; as a film in 1932 and again in 1957, and as a three-part television miniseries in 1966. The 1996 film "In Love and War", directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Chris O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock, depicts Hemingway's life in Italy as an ambulance driver in the events prior to his writing of "A Farewell to Arms". The novel is divided into five sections.
Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube. Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called "Is Everybody Happy?" (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film "Hold That Ghost" (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled "Is Everybody Happy?" (1943). Notes Is Everybody Happy? (1929 film) Is Everybody Happy? (1929) is an American Pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros.