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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 ...
Pages in category "Novels by Harold Robbins" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... A Stone for Danny Fisher; T. Tycoon (novel) W.
She returned to New York, and resumed her stage career with a role in a Leonard Kantor–directed, Washington DC–based production of Harold Robbins' A Stone for Danny Fisher. [2] Cabot studied acting with Sanford Meisner in New York, [6] and continued to pursue a stage career, appearing in a short-lived run of the musical Shangri-La in Boston ...
In the mid-1950s, he wrote music for many silent movie and opera sketches for Sid Caesar's television shows, and in the 1960s, he composed music for several television documentaries, television plays, and an off-broadway play by Harold Robbins, A Stone for Danny Fisher (1960).
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Perkins was optioned as the lead in Harold Robbins's A Stone for Danny Fisher, but he was not interested in the film and turned it down. It later was known as King Creole, a musical vehicle for popular teen idol and pop singer Elvis Presley, whom Perkins was sometimes mistaken for. [168]