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Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels. One of the best-selling writers of all time , he wrote over 25 best-sellers, selling over 750 million copies in 32 languages.
The Carpetbaggers is a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title. The prequel Nevada Smith (1966) was also based on a character in the novel. In the United States, the term "carpetbagger" refers to an outsider relocating to exploit locals. [1]
Embassy Pictures purchased the screen rights to Harold Robbins' next novel in 1963 for $1 million, [4] hiring John Michael Hayes to write a screenplay. When the novel The Adventurers was released in 1966, Paramount Pictures promoted the novel with a sweepstakes asking readers to submit their choices for casting with the winners to be awarded $500.
The movie was produced and directed by Henry Hathaway, with Joseph E. Levine as executive producer, from a story and screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on a character from Harold Robbins' 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers. The music is by Alfred Newman and the cinematography, shot in Eastmancolor and Panavision, by Lucien Ballard.
I saw the introducion to Whicker's World. If he was 1971 five times married, than he must be six time married by dead, because he was divorced from his second wife Grace and married then Jane Robbins in the 90's. Jann is certainly his third wife. Harold was a real storyteller and the story to be "five times married" was one of his imaginations.
The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the best-selling 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and Alan Ladd in his last role as Nevada Smith, a former Western gunslinger turned actor.
A Stone For Danny Fisher is a serious early novel by Harold Robbins that looks at the effect of the Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family. Written in 1952, it is set in the period up to 1944.
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