Image Gallery
John Marquand as a child.
John Marquand at nineteen.
Photographed in the house at Newburyport.
The 1913 staff of the Harvard Lampoon. Marquand is second from the right in the next to the last row, with Edward Streeter on his right. (Christian Herter stands next to Streeter.) Gardiner Fiske is seated on the floor at left.
Christina Sedgwick, photographed a few days before her marriage to John Marquand in 1922.
John Marquand, sketched about the same time.
The announcement of Adelaide Hooker’s engagement in the February 26, 1937, New York Times.
John Marquand in his early forties.
Adelaide and John Marquand at the Brandts’ house in New Jersey, 1937.
Carol Brandt, 1940.
Carl and Carol Brandt.
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The Kent’s Island house before, during, and after the many additions to the original cottage.
Carol Brandt, 1944.
Halsman
Hedy Lamarr (with Robert Young) in the film role of Marvin Myles.
Chester T. Holbrook
John Marquand in the country.
Marquand with the Fiskes at Kent’s Island, 1948.
The Mill House at Curzon’s Mill, where The Late George Apley was written.
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The Hale cousins visit “Wickford Point.”
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The Hale cousins discussing the upcoming lawsuit. The beautiful Renée Oakman is on the left.
The Yellow House at Curzon’s Mill.
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Phil Marquand before the trial.
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John Marquand before the rial.
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High jinks with chums at Pinehurst.
A Book-of-the-Month Club meeting in the early 1940s, painted by Joseph Hirsch. Left to right: Henry Seidel Canby, Harry Scherman, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, John P. Marquand, Clifton Fadiman, Christopher Morley, Meredith Wood.
Museum of Modern Art
The Apleys of Boston as conceived by Hollywood. Ronald Coleman, seated, left, played the title role.
Leo G. Carroll as Apley on Broadway.
John Marquand during his last years.