BUtterfield 8

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! BUtterfield 8 is a 1935 novel written by John O Hara in the wake of the success of his critically acclaimed Appointment in Samarra. The popular novel was adapted into a 1960 film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. The screenplay was adapted by John Michael Hayes and Charles Schnee from the 1935 novel by John O'Hara, but the plot of the film bears only a superficial resemblance to the plot of the novel. O'Hara based parts of the novel on the mysterious death of Starr Faithfull in Long Beach, Nassau County, New York in 1931. Faithfull's body was found dead on Long Beach's beach, apparently from drowning. In the novel the heroine is killed by falling under a paddlewheel of a steamboat on which she is a passenger. Also part of the background of Faithfull's life (her relationship with her mother's cousin Mayor Andrew James Peters of Boston) is used in a similar fictional relationship between the heroine and a friend of her uncle's and a school principal from new England.