In addition, the book version of her screenplay for The Great Moment was Glyn’s first completely American novel. This financially successful film starred Gloria Swanson, Alec B. DeMille gave Elinor Glyn a part as an extra in The Affairs of Anatol (1921), but it was when Sam Wood directed her story in The Great Moment (1921) for Famous Players-Lasky that Glyn became established as a writer in Hollywood. Her 1907 tour of the United States and her introduction to American culture and way of life may very well have laid the fertile groundwork for her 1920 return and subsequent work as writer, director, producer, and actress in Hollywood.Įlinor Glyn on set, Beyond the Rocks (1922). Before that version materialized, however, Glyn returned to England, but only after lengthening her stay with a journey by rail through the American West to California. According to her British biographer, Joan Hardwick, “the reception of Three Weeks in the States had renewed confidence and she decided to try her hand at dramatizing it” (133). In October of 1907, at forty-two, Glyn, traveling as Elinor Glyn, the authoress of romantic fiction, boarded the Lusitania and set sail for New York on her first American tour in order to promote Three Weeks. Perhaps most remembered in the United States for her best-selling 1907 novel of exotic sensuality Three Weeks and her brainchild “It,” that enigmatic characteristic embodied in actress Clara Bow and dramatized in the silent motion picture It (1927), English-born journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and actress Elinor Glyn, born Elinor Sutherland, embarked on her American career in 1920 during her second visit to the United States.

His Hour by Elinor Glyn