“Julia” a Book by Joan Grindley now a Script Ready for Film Production

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - May 16, 2013 - PRLog -- “Julia” a Book by Joan Grindley now a Script Ready for Film Production

“Julia, the Story of a Life” Script Ready for Production: Written by award winning Screenwriter/Producer and Film Director, Colin Stewart, the script is based on Joan Grindley’s  provocative book.

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May 16, 2013 - “Julia” a Book by Joan Grindley now a Script Ready for Film Production.

This book to screen project is a wonderful “slice of life” story about a young girl of thirteen, illegitimate and living with a foster family in the outskirts of Budapest, who is married off to a total stranger and shipped off to a new land to begin her life’s journey.

How Julia, knowing nothing but feeling everything, learns to be a married lady, overcomes hardships and raises a family is a model for any woman. The fact that she succeeds beyond her wildest expectations makes this story a testament to her faith.

Julia’s final words to her grandmother sums up her being, “Never forget me or I will cease to be.”  When Joan Grindley’s grandmother Julia died, she evoked a promise from her granddaughter to write down her story. So, immediately after returning from a corporate career, Joan began the novel based on her grandmother’s life.

This book to screen project screenplay is written by award winning screenwriter, producer and director of feature films, Colin Stewart.
 
Julia, the story of a life

Julia is the story of a Hungarian girl of thirteen whose mother was a countess and her father a commoner, thus not allowed to marry, and forcing her to be raised by a foster parent who was more inclined to be a slave driver. Her only friends were an elderly priest and his housekeeper in whose home she labored. She was married off, sight unseen, to a young man taken out of the seminary by his parents to settle a debt and shipped off to America. Her only saving grace in this arrangement was that the young man, George, adored Julia from the moment he saw her, and treated her with tenderness and loving care.

They arrived in Ellis Island and began their new life together in New York City. After failing to earn a living there they traveled to several coal mines south of New York where George could work hard and did not have to speak much in the new language he did not understand. In the several years they traveled between mines from Ohio to Pennsylvania Julia gave birth to seven children. When they returned to New York City eight years later they had only three who survived -- Emma, Jerry and Mary.

They set up housekeeping again in New York City with George working as a street cleaner and Julia finding work in the home of Col. John Jacob Astor. Here she met a white hunter from East Africa named James McFadden who fell madly in love with her.

Col. Astor then married a girl only slightly older than Julie and went to Europe on his honeymoon. He asks Julie to accompany his son, Vincent, to London where he will conclude his studies while they are away. When his bride, Madeline, becomes pregnant a few months later, a decision is made, and they plan to meet on the Titanic and return to the U. S. together. While on the way to the ship Julia ‘s coach has an accident which sends her to the hospital and she misses the sailing.

Julia returns to New York. She takes a job as an artist model for Pierre Manot, and meets his wealthy fashion designer friend, Louis Chatelaine. She poses for portraits commissioned for Louis and eventually goes to work for him and launches her designing career.

How this story ends proves the old adage that with determination and faith in God and in ones abilities, anything is possible.

Joan has authored 3 memoir novels: Julia, Emma, and A Long Walk Home. She also collaborated on an anthology: Lives, and Ghost-wrote a memoir novel: Agonizing Circumstances.  Joan has also been published in several poetry anthologies and written several magazine articles.

For interested investors and producers of this book to screen film, the contact information is below and at their websites.  

Joan Grindley – email: grindleyj@comcast.net

And/or Kathy Krantz Stewart
310-691-9333 and kathysuekrantz@hotmail.com

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