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Syndicated series The O. Henry Playhouse (1956-57) adapted the story for one of their half-hour episodes. The adaptation has been released on a DVD collection of the show's episodes. [2] The story was included in a 1987 audiotape collection O. Henry Favorites by the Listening Library of Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
The popularity of the story as a motion picture added greatly to the author's vogue, though in the English, French, and Spanish versions O. Henry's name was not mentioned. [1] The character of Jimmy Valentine is taken from life but there is a close parallel to the leading incident in chapter XLII of Hugo's Les Misérables .
Twenty Years After (French: Vingt ans après) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, first serialized from January to August 1845.A book of The d'Artagnan Romances, it is a sequel to The Three Musketeers (1844) and precedes the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne (which includes the sub-plot Man in the Iron Mask).
H. C. McNeile bibliography Novels ↙ 15 Articles ↙ 1 Stories ↙ 20 Collections ↙ 1 Plays ↙ 3 Scripts ↙ 1 Books edited ↙ 1 References and footnotes Cyril McNeile, MC (born Herman Cyril McNeile; 1888–1937) was a British soldier and author. During the First World War he wrote short stories based on his experiences in the trenches with the Royal Engineers. These were published in the ...
Alias Jimmy Valentine is a 1909 play written by Paul Armstrong, based on the 1903 short story A Retrieved Reformation by O. Henry. It has four acts, a large cast, four settings, and fast pacing. The story follows a former safecracker's attempt to go straight, and the choice he must make between saving a child's life and exposing himself to arrest.
The O. Henry Playhouse was an early American anthology television series which featured ... 20 March 1957 ) #1.09 ... "After Twenty Years" Donald Hyde: 17 ...
Red Skelton as Freddie the Freeloader (right) with Allen Jenkins as his friend, Muggsie, in a 1958 enactment of the story on Skelton's television program.. In February 1909, less than five years after the story's initial publication, O. Henry's work was adapted to the film Trying to Get Arrested, which was directed by D. W. Griffith, produced by the Biograph Company of New York, and released ...
The Talbots have fallen from their aristocratic past in the South before the American Civil War and are now quite poor. The pair stay at a boarding house in the nation's capital. There they become acquainted with Henry Hopkins Hargraves, an ambitious actor in vaudeville. Hargraves is seemingly spellbound by the Major's tales of his happier past ...