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20,000 Years in Sing Sing
20,000 Years in Sing Sing is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film set in Sing Sing Penitentiary, the maximum security prison in Ossining, New York, starring Spencer Tracy as an inmate and Bette Davis as his girlfriend. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and based upon the nonfiction book "Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing", written by Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing from 1920 to 1941.
The film was remade by First National Pictures as "Castle on the
be the perfect co-star, Berman agreed. Maugham also supported her being cast in the role.
Screenwriter Wilson Mizner brought a copy of the Maugham novel to Davis, who was in the midst of filming his "20,000 Years in Sing Sing". After reading it and learning RKO held the screen rights, she implored Jack L. Warner to lend her to the rival studio. "At the time, however," Davis later recalled, "Warner Brothers had other plans for me. They thought they needed me