About the Project

“Love is a Battlefield” is a truly original screenplay about the tumultuously-entertaining relationship between the charismatic, witty, ruggedly-handsome 38 year-old Ernest Hemingway at the peak of his literary power and his battles with the tall, blonde, beautiful and brave, 28 year-old Martha Gellhorn who would become the most heralded war correspondent of the 20th Century (man or woman).

Written by Gail Brice, the comically-dramatic script is based on over 70 references written about and by Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway.

Ms. Brice was inspired to tell their action-packed and amusing story when her image of the macho Hemingway was shattered discovering that his third wife was a war reporter and reading about their race to Normandy on D-Day:

He snagged Martha’s place on the transport ship by offering to be her magazine’s correspondent. He got as far as the back of the landing craft delivering the troops to the beach.

Left behind on the docks, Martha stowed away on a hospital ship. It was the first to reach Normandy when the first two hospital ships sunk. She volunteered as a stretcher bearer and spent the night  tending to the wounded on Omaha Beach. But before they were competing war correspondents…

They began is “Literary Legend & His Greatest Fan” when Martha headed down to Key West to work on her latest novel and meet her literary hero.

They became “Mentor & Protégé” when she hitchhiked across Spain through a Civil War to be with Hemingway. They went from “Partners & Lovers” to “Husband & Wife” while he wrote For Whom The Bells Tolls.  Terrified of marriage,  she finally said yes when he grudgingly agreed to go to the War in China for their honeymoon.

After Martha had a tough time in China (Hemingway greatly enjoyed her distress), they settled in Cuba where Martha tried to be a dutiful wife until…

Pearl Harbor. She wanted them to go to Europe. He wanted to hunt German U Boats in the Caribbean with his fishing boat.  He needed her to be a “wife in my bed, not a war correspondent.” Hemingway had met his match.

“Love is a Battlefield” continues the great tradition of the unending battle of the sexes that has entertained throughout movie history from the smart screwball comedies of the 30’s and 40’s through the more physical movie battles between men & women in the 21st  Century.

Read more out the Humorous Hemingway and Gutsy Martha and vote for the actors to play this tumultuously-entertaining couple.

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