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Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan. [6] His relatives in his birthplace of Manhattan, Kansas , included several newspapermen. [ 7 ] His grandfather was a newspaper printer from New Jersey who had relocated to Manhattan, Kansas, in 1855, and his father was the editor of his newspaper in the town.
According to Damon Runyon, Jr.'s memoir, Father's Footsteps (New York: Random House, 1954; London, Constable, 1955), his father was indeed cremated and his ashes were scattered over Manhattan Island on December 18, 1946. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker did not fly the plane; the pilot was John F. Gill, and the co-pilot was Captain Eddie Barber.
Sorrowful Jones, also known as Damon Runyon's Sorrowful Jones, is a 1949 American comedy-drama film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film stars Lucille Ball and Bob Hope. Sorrowful Jones was a remake of a 1934 Shirley Temple film, Little Miss Marker. In the film, a young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones (Hope) as a marker ...
Damon Runyon (born Alfred Damon Runyan), hall-of-fame sports writer and short story writer; Jennifer Runyon, American TV actress born in 1960; Marie M. Runyon (1915-2018), New York political activist, state assembly member 1975–1976; Marvin Travis Runyon, 20th-century American automotive executive and U.S. Postmaster 1992-1998
by Damon Runyon and Howard Lindsay: Produced by: Samuel Bischoff: Starring: Edward G. Robinson Jane Bryan Allen Jenkins Ruth Donnelly: Cinematography: Sidney Hickox: Edited by: James Gibbon: Music by: Heinz Roemheld (uncredited) Distributed by: Warner Bros.
Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, [1] [2] and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, such as "Pick the Winner".
Bloodhounds of Broadway, an unrelated film based on a different selection of stories by Damon Runyon Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bloodhounds of Broadway .
Pages in category "Films based on works by Damon Runyon" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .