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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh appears in The Birth of a Nation, the film adaptation of the book by Thomas Dixon Jr. The Clansman, first published in 1905.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Miracle on 34th Street. Poster of the 1947 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Miracle on 34th Street
Valentine Davies, 1947
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Miracle on 34th Street
George Seaton, 1947

Kris Kringle is indignant to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. He does so well he is hired to play Santa at Macy’s flagship New York City store on 34th Street. Ignoring instructions from toy department head Julian Shellhammer to recommend overstocked items to undecided shoppers, Kris directs one woman to another store to fulfill her son’s Christmas request.

The Birth of a Nation. Poster of the 1915 movie and cover of the 1905 book, The Clansman
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The Clansman
Thomas Dixon Jr., 1905
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The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith, 1915

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.