)The film was based on the 1981 best-selling novel of the same name by Thomas Harris, from a screenplay by Ted Tally (the scriptwriter forThe Silence of the Lambs (1991)).She profusely apologized and promised Dave that she was cured, and as she said goodbye, she quoted from Edgar Allan Poe""s macabre ""Annabel Lee"" poem:Because this maiden, she lived with no other thought han to love and be loved by you...I grabbed it off his head." Her mother stared back in horror.In their kitchen the next day, Nancy (who hadn""t slept all night) overheard her mother on the phone talking about he fedora - and then when questioned, her mother claimed she had hrown the "filthy thing" away: "I don""t know where you really found it or what you""re trying to prove.The Pre-Code romance drama was the second of six films starring both Clark Gable and platinum-blonde sexpot Jean Harlow.