David Copperfield (1935 film) David Copperfield (1935 film) David Copperfield is a 1935 American film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based upon the Charles Dickens novel "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger". A number of characters and incidents from the novel were omitted – notably David's time at Salem House boarding school, although one character he met at Salem House (Steerforth) was retained for the film as a head boy at the school David attended after his aunt Betsey Trotwood gained custody of him. The story was adapted by Hugh Walpole from the Dickens novel, and the film was directed
T.P. James T.P. James Thomas Power James (better known as T. P. James) was a publisher in Brattleboro, Vermont best known for publishing a completion of Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" claimed to be written by the spirit of Dickens channeled through a spiritualist summoning. The book, published in 1873 under the title "Part Second of the Mystery of Edwin Drood," was reviewed by the "New York Times," as well as regional newspapers, like the "Salem Observer". With a successful marketing campaign, the book became an item of comment in the literary community, with an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle