| The Foxes of Harrow | |
| Director: | John M. Stahl |
| Producer: | William A. Bacher Darryl F. Zanuck |
| Screenplay: | Wanda Tuchock Dwight Taylor (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) Edwin Justus Mayer (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) Thomas Job (contributor to dialogue) (uncredited) |
| Starring: | Rex Harrison Maureen O'Hara Richard Haydn Victor McLaglen Vanessa Brown Patricia Medina Gene Lockhart |
| Music: | David Buttolph |
| Cinematography: | Joseph LaShelle |
| Editing: | James B. Clark |
| Distributor: | 20th Century Fox |
| Runtime: | 117 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom-United States |
| Language: | English |
| Budget: | $2,750,000[1] |
| Gross: | $3,150,000 (US rentals)[2] [3] |
The Foxes of Harrow is a 1947 American-British adventure film directed by John M. Stahl. The film stars Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, and Richard Haydn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Frank Yerby, the sixth best-selling novel in the US in 1946.[4]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Production Design (Lyle R. Wheeler, Maurice Ransford, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox).[5]
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox buys his way into society – something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.[6]
The storyline is derived from the 1946 eponymous novel The Foxes of Harrow by Frank Yerby. Fox paid author Frank Yerby $150,000 for the motion picture rights to The Foxes of Harrow, which was his first novel. A December 1947 Ebony article called the figure "the biggest bonanza ever pocketed by a colored writer" and stated that the book was "the first Negro-authored novel ever bought by a Hollywood studio."[1]