Trivia / David Copperfield

• All-Star Cast: 1935 film, 1969 film, 2019 film and 1999 and 2000 miniseries.
• Creator Breakdown: Dickens was writing this based in large part on his life story, and sometimes things were a bit too painful to remember, so he fudged. For instance, Dickens makes David (himself in print) quite perfect and upright; kills off Dora because he was unsatisfied with his own wife for some of the same reasons; and Agnes' personality developed from his idealization of her real-life model, Mary Hogarth, who died in his arms at innocent seventeen.
• Creator's Favorite Episode: Charles Dickens named the book "the favourite child" among his works.
• Executive Meddling: A very minor example in the 1935 movie. When the man David hires to take him to Dover rides off with his money, the authorities appear out of nowhere and chase him into the distance. David's money is not recovered however, and the it's obvious the only reason this was added was to comply with the newly enforced Hays Code's policy that if someone commits a crime, they must be caught for it onscreen.
• Missing Episode:
  • The 1956 miniseries is completely lost.
  • Only four episodes survive of the 1966 miniseries.
• Real-Life Relative: Harry Lloyd, who played Young Steerforth in the 1999 miniseries, is a great-great-great-grandson of Dickens himself.
• Write What You Know: The most autobiographical of all Dickens' works.
• Write Who You Know: Dickens based Micawber on his father, who faced similar financial problems, but never emigrated.

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