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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]
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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2012); Harold Robbins, American novelist, author of The Carpetbaggers and A Stone for Danny Fisher, in New York City (d. 1997) Died: Artúr Görgei, Hungarian military general and politician, revolutionary leader during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 (b. 1818)
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Robert Hale published in hardback in the UK the first four Harold Robbins titles, 79 Park Avenue, Never Love a Stranger, A Stone for Danny Fisher and Never Leave Me. In 1986 it published Robert Goddard's first novel, Past Caring. Other authors published in the UK include James Hadley Chase, John D. MacDonald and Edward Storey.
1 billion [5] English Romance: 723 British Danielle Steel: 500 million [6] 800 million [7] English General fiction, romance 179 American: Harold Robbins: 750 million [8] 750 million [9] English Adventure: 23 American Georges Simenon: 500 million [10] 700 million [11] French: Detectives, Maigret, romans durs 570 Belgian: Enid Blyton: 600 million ...