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Father Goose is a 1964 American Technicolor romantic comedy film set in World War II, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard.The title is a play on the children's fiction character of "Mother Goose," which is used as a code name assigned to the coast watcher character played by Grant.
Father Goose, an alternate title of Fly Away Home, a 1996 film; Father Goose, a character in some of L. Frank Baum's books; Father Goose: His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry for children by L. Frank Baum; Father Goose, a book by Chapman Mortimer that won the 1951 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
Father Goose: His Book is a collection of nonsense poetry for children, written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, and first published in 1899.Though generally neglected a century later, the book was a groundbreaking sensation in its own era; "once America's best-selling children's book and L. Frank Baum's first success," [1] Father Goose laid a foundation for the writing ...
Charles Ghigna (/'gɪnˈjə/) (born August 25, 1946), known also as Father Goose is an American poet and author of children's and adults' books. He has written more than 5,000 poems and 100 books. [1] Ghigna was born in Bayside, Queens. His parents relocated to Fort Myers, Florida when he was five. [2]
Baum had made similar attempts, with uneven results; The Songs of Father Goose (1900) had been a respectable seller, but other ventures, including a Father Goose Calendar, failed to materialize. [2] The Year Book was a belated version of the calendar: it was a date book with humorous poems and pictures on the left (the verso side of each leaf ...
Mother Goose was a moderate success and allowed Baum to quit his sales job (which had had a negative impact on his health). In 1899, Baum partnered with illustrator W. W. Denslow to publish Father Goose, His Book, a collection of nonsense poetry. The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year.
Frank Tarloff (February 4, 1916 – June 25, 1999) was a blacklisted American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Father Goose. [1]A child of Polish immigrant parents, Tarloff grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School and Brooklyn College. [2]
Chapman Mortimer was the pen name of William Charles ("W. C.") Chapman Mortimer (15 May 1907 [1] – 1988 [2]), a Scottish novelist.He won the James Tait Black Award for fiction in 1951 for his novel Father Goose. [3]