Eleanor H. Porter wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. Her most famous novel is "Pollyanna" (1913), followed by a sequel, "Pollyanna Grows Up" (1915). Her adult novels include "The Turn of the Tide" (1908), "The Road to Understanding" (1917), "Oh Money! Money!" (1918), "Dawn" (1919), "Keith's Dark Tower" (1919), "Mary Marie" (1920) and "Sister Sue" (1921); her short-story collections include "Across the Years" (c. 1919), "Money, Love and Kate" (1923), and "Little Pardner" (1926). Porter achieved considerable commercial success: "Pollyanna" ranked eighth among best-selling novels in the United States during 1913, second during 1914, and fourth during 1915 (with 47
An Optimistic Tragedy (film) An Optimistic Tragedy (film) Optimistic Tragedy (, translit. "Optimisticheskaya tragediya") is a 1963 Soviet film directed by Samson Samsonov. It is based on the eponymous play by Vsevolod Vishnevsky and was entered into the 1963 Cannes Film Festival. "Optimistic Tragedy" was a Soviet blockbuster of 1963 with 46 millions tickets sold. The film was named Best Film of the Year and Margarita Volodina was named Best Actress of the Year by readers of the Soviet film magazine "Sovetsky Ekran". The film was shot in Sovscope 70 on black and white film stock. The prints were split into three films for