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In the mid-1920s, a young Danny Fisher and his family move into a house in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. [1] Within a few years, however, the Great Depression begins and Danny must use his one talent, boxing, as a means of supporting his family. After a few years, the Fishers have lost their house and are living in a cramped apartment in the city.
His 1952 novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher, was adapted into a 1958 motion picture King Creole, which starred Elvis Presley. [8] Among his best-known books is The Carpetbaggers (1961) – featuring a protagonist who was a loose composite of Howard Hughes, Bill Lear, Harry Cohn, and Louis B. Mayer. [9]
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King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins.Produced by Hal B. Wallis, the film stars Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, Walter Matthau, Dolores Hart, Dean Jagger, Vic Morrow, Liliane Montevecchi and Paul Stewart, and it follows a nineteen-year-old (Presley) who gets mixed up with crooks and ...
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Daniel Fisher (physicist) from Antoine Georges; Daniel S. Fisher (born 1956), theoretical physicist working in statistical physics. Dan Fisher (volleyball), volleyball coach for the Pittsburgh Panthers; Daniel Webster Fisher, 10th president of Hanover College; Danny Fisher, the fictional protagonist of the novel, A Stone for Danny Fisher
Included in this instalment of the Legendary Performer series is "Danny", a previously unissued recording from 1958 of what was at one point to be the theme song for Presley's film King Creole (when the film still retained the title of the novel upon which it was based, A Stone for Danny Fisher).