Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
FACT #1 - As a teenager, Damon Runyon enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Philippines in the Spanish-American War. He returned to the states by hopping trains. FACT #2 - Runyon wrote short stories celebrating the Broadway of New York's post-Prohibition era with a distinct style, now known as “Runyonesque”.
11. Jan. 2008 · Damon Runyon was a gifted sports writer in New York City as well as being a great journalist and great short story writer. His stories were humorous ones, written in the \"dem\" and \"dose\" vernacular of the city's loveable and not so loveable characters of Broadway, the prize ring and the underworld. His most famous collection of short stories, Guys and Dolls, was on Broadway and later made ...
21. Sept. 2013 · The Damon Runyon Theatre stands as one of Mayfair's finest contributions to The Golden Age of Radio and remains a valuable addition to any Golden Age Radio collector's library. As an artifact of American Society it represents an invaluable time capsule of period vernacular. But most of all it stands as an enduring reminder of the genius of Damon Runyon's insight into the class warfare that ...
The Damon Runyon Theater radio series dramatized 52 of Runyon’s short stories in weekly broadcasts running from October 1948 to September 1949 (with reruns until 1951). The series was produced by Alan Ladd’s Mayfair Transcription Company for syndication to local radio stations. John Brown played the character “Broadway”, who doubled as ...
Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyan to Alfred Lee and Elizabeth (Damon) Runyan. 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.
6. Sept. 2009 · Damon Runyon Theater (1955) Zu diesem Film gibt es leider noch keine Inhaltsangabe bei uns. Kennen Sie den Film und möchten Sie vielleicht selber eine schreiben? Inhaltsangabe schreiben
variety. damon runyon theater. + Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was a newspaperman and writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type ...
