The True Story Behind Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Her Mixed-Up Files -

Over 50 years ago, author E.L. Konigsburg wrote her children’s literature classic that highlighted the wonder of museums. --

Over a half-century ago, a girl and brother ran away to New York City from their suburban Connecticut home. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art hasn’t been the same since. If visions of Claudia and Jamie bathing—and collecting lunch money—in the Met’s Fountain of Muses bring up fond childhood memories of your own, you’re among the legions of readers who grew up loving E.L. Konigsburg’s From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

The classic children’s book turned 50 in 2017, and the tale of the Kincaid siblings spending their days wandering about the paintings, sculptures and antiquities, and their nights sleeping in antique beds handcrafted for royalty, is as popular as ever. The 1968 Newbery Medal winner has never been out of print.

This is its story.

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Who knows the secret of Mrs. Frankweiler's mixed-up art files? The
Hideaways, that's who! Three-time Academy Award® winner* Ingrid Bergman
joins Richard Mulligan, Madeline Kahn and newcomers Sally Prager and
Johnny Doran in a charmer based on the beloved book From the Mixed-Up
Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Prager and Doran play Claudia and
Jamie, a sister and brother who run away from home to the neatest
hideout ever: the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Neither imagines their
expedition will plunge them into the mystery that has all New York
abuzz. Everyone wants to know if the new statue of an angel donated to
the museum by reclusive art collector Mrs. Frankweiler (Bergman) is a
Michelangelo work. Claudia is sure that learning the answer will make
her adventure a success, so she and Jamie decide to find out -- even if
it means (gulp!) confronting cantankerous Mrs. Frankweiler!



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