Inspired by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Smile Bares Wellesley’s Quaint Past
Mike Newell’s Mona Lisa Smile , from a screenplay by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, reportedly had as its genesis a magazine article about Hillary Rodham Clinton’s years at Wellesley College in the 1960′s. The screenwriters decided to go back a decade and set the film during the much-maligned 1950′s, the Eisenhower era-a time when Read More
