Did you know the hit Broadway musical CATS is based on the 1939 novel Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot? Well get ready… a movie is hitting the big screen on December 20, 2019 starring Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, and Rebel Wilson.
Official Book Synopsis:
Cats! Some are sane, and some are mad. Some are good, and some are bad . . .
These lovable cat poems were written by T. S. Eliot for his godchildren and continue to delight children and grown-ups. Eliot’s beloved cat poems are a curious and artful homage to felines young and old, merry and fierce, small and unmistakably round, and Edward Gorey’s graphic interpretations are sure to charm.
Here is the official trailer for the movie:
Official Author Bio:
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St. Louis, Missouri, and became a British subject in 1927.
The acclaimed poet of The Waste Land, Four Quartets, and Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, among numerous other poems, prose, and works of drama, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. T.S. Eliot died in 1965 in London, England, and is buried in Westminster Abbey.