Celebrated Stories Made Into Movies. A Quick Reader Book
first edition
1944 · Chicago
by STREET, JAMES, DAMON RUNYON, STEPHEN VINCENT BENET, & KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
Chicago: Royce Publishers, 1944. First Edition. Paperbound. Small format, 3” x 4 1/2”. Pictorial wrappers and illustrations by Axelrod. Very good plus copy with some minor edge wear and a hint of dust soiling in colorful printed wrappers. An abridged anthology of four stories which were made into films: “Nothing Sacred” by James Street, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, “Madame La Gimp” by Damon Runyon, which was the basis for Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring May Robson and Walter Connolly, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” by Stephen Vincent Benet, which became the motion picture All That Money Can Buy, starring Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, and Simone Simon, and “The Failure” by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, which appeared in film under the title A Man to Remember, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Edward Ellis. (Inventory #: 14191E)