Damon Runyon
출생 : 1884-10-04, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
사망 : 1946-12-10
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Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short-story 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 from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". His distinctive vernacular style is known as "Runyonese": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions. He is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe an upper-class, loud-mouthed, arrogant twit.
Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick The Winner". The film Little Miss Marker (and its two remakes, Sorrowful Jones and the 1980 Little Miss Marker) grew from his short story of the same name.
Runyon was also a well-known newspaper reporter, covering sports and general news for decades for various publications and syndicates owned by William Randolph Hearst. Already famous for his fiction, he wrote a well-remembered "present tense" article on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential inauguration in 1933 for the Universal Service, a Hearst syndicate, which was merged with the co-owned International News Service in 1937.
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One December day around Christmastime I am in the city of Las Vegas talking to Harry the Horse about this and that, when I hear this yarn about a citizen by the name of Murray Crown (Tom Arnold), who runs a clip joint which he prefers to call a casino. It seems that this Murray Crown not only has the John Laws breathing down his neck, but it is also a fact that he is married to this doll called Shirley (Katey Sagal), who is known far and wide as the green-eyed type.
Writer
This musical is based on four short stories by Damon Runyon. In one tale, gambler Feet Samuels sells his body to science just as he realizes that Hortense loves him and that he would rather live than die. In another story, Harriet's parrot is killed, and she has problems dealing with her loss. Then, there is a gambler, "Regret", who has bloodhounds on his trail when he becomes a murder suspect. Finally, "The Brain" is bleeding profusely, and his friends search for a way to save his life through a blood transfusion.
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웃음마저 잃어버린 무뚝뚝한 남자 소로풀. 그는 무허가 마권업자로 돈을 벌 줄만 알았지 쓸 줄은 모르는 천하의 구두쇠다. 어느날 도박에 미친 남자가 어린 딸을 맡겨놓고 10만달러를 빌려가서 경마에 잃어버리자 곧바로 자살을 한다. 졸지에 어린애를 맡은 소로풀은 귀잖아하지만 자신도 모르게 차츰 정이 들어가는데...
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금주법 시대의 뉴요크. 몰래 술을 빚어 치부한 캬바레 주인 유드는 길거리 사과장수 노파 애니의 사과가 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿고 무슨 일이 있을 때마다 그 사과를 산다. 애니는 스페인에 살고 있는 딸 루이즈에게 생활비를 보내느라 고통을 받고 있었는데...딸에게 자신이 귀부인이라고 거짓말을 한 뒷골목의 여장부를 위해서 모든 뒷골목 사람들이 힘을 합쳐서 그녀를 잠시 귀부인으로 변모시켜주는 이 인정이 넘치는 스토리에는, 비록 밑바닥 인생이지만 의리 하나만은 한결같은 서민들의 끈끈한 정이 전편을 흐르고 있다. 뉴욕의 멋쟁이 데이브는 사과 행상 애니의 사과가 늘 자신에게 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿는다. 여느 때와 마찬가지로 데이브는 애니를 찾아가는데, 그녀는 무척이나 불안정한 모습이다. 사실 애니에게는 어릴 때 유럽으로 보낸 딸 루이즈가 있는데, 루이즈는 어느새 장성해 명문가 자제와의 결혼을 앞두고 있다. 그런데 루이즈의 뉴욕 방문을 앞두고, 애니는 자신을 부유한 귀부인으로 알고 있는 딸과 예비 사위에게 정체가 탄로날까 봐 걱정이 태산이다. 카프라는 오랫동안 자신의 작품 (1933)를 다시 만들고 싶어했는데, 약 20년 후에 결국 리메이크작 을 내놓았으며, 이는 카프라의 마지막 장편영화가 된다. 이후 이 작품을 토대로 성룡은 자신이 연출은 물론, 매염방과 함께 주연을 맡은 작품 (1989)을 만든다.
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나싼(Nathan Detroit: 프랭크 시나트라 분)은 나이트 클럽의 가수 아델레이드(Miss Adelaide: 비비안 블레인 분)와 약혼한 사이지만 장장 14년이 지나도록 도박에 빠져 그녀와의 결혼은 안중에도 없다. 급기야 파산하기에 이른 나싼은 도박 장소를 빌리기 위한 천달러를 구하러 동분서주한다. 한편 건달들의 아지트인 타임 스퀘어. 오늘도 흥청망청한 건달들의 세계는 여전하다. 그곳에서 선교사 활동을 결심한 사라(Sarah Brown: 진 시몬스 분)는 의욕적으로 활동을 벌이려 하지만 일은 뜻대로 쉽사리 되지 않음을 깨닫는다. 결국 그녀의 선교사는 사람이 없어 문을 닫아야 할 처지에 놓인다. 뉴욕의 둘째가라면 서러울 도박사 스카이 매스터슨(Sky Masterson: 마론 브란도 분)은 궁지에 몰린 나싼과 내기를 하게 된다. 바로 그것은 스카이가 나싼이 지목하는 여자와 하바나에서 밤을 보낼 수 있는지에 관한 것. 나싼은 선교사 아가씨 사라를 가리킨다. 사라와 하바나로 가지 많으면 당장 천달러가 날아가게 생긴 스카이. 그는 꾀를 내어 사라에게 선교사에 수용할 인원 12명을 알선해 주겠다고 약속한다. 그 대가로 하바나로 향하는 스카이와 사라. 운명적인 사랑의 감정! 그러나 건달들은 사랑의 위기에 처하고. 다시 뉴욕으로 돌아온 사라는 스카이가 내기에서 이기기 위해 자신을 이용한 사실을 뒤늦게 알게 되고 그의 사랑을 거부하기로 맘먹는다. 14년간이나 나싼을 기다려 왔던 아델레이드도 나싼이 결혼을 계속 미루기만 하자 이별을 결심한다.
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Herman owes a lot of gambling debts. To pay them off, he promises the mob he'll fix a horse, so that it does not run. He intends to trick his animal-loving cousin Virgil, an apprentice veterinarian, into helping him. Of course, he doesn't tell Virgil what he is really up to. Mistaken identities are assumed, while along the way, Virgil meets a female vet and Herman falls for the owner of the horse.
Theatre Play
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
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A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird, Emily Ann Stackerlee , he'll do anything to help her make it big -- including a stint in jail to pay for his crimes. But will the tough guy's sacrifice of the heart pay off when it comes to his girlfriend's singing career?
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When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
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Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.
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A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.
Producer
Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.
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Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
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Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan leads a life of criminal activities motivated to provide for a widow and her child. He's on lookout for a gang of safe crackers when he has to also look after the baby of one of the criminals.
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This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gangsters and, wounded by a bullet, he finds refuge in the home of a wealthy recluse. One of the gangsters is found riddled with bullets from the gun Lance dropped while making his escape, and he is arrested and tried for murder. The reclusive widow comes to the trail and testifies that Lance was her guest that night when the clock struck twelve, the time of the killing. Lance, while innocent, is also lucky, as the widow had her all her clocks set to always strike twelve, as the time her husband had died.
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A crook with big feet buys shoes that are too tight from a salesman, then decides to use the store as a front for illegal gambling.
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Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself.
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Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
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Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
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A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.
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When King's beloved horse dies, Princess tries to purchase a new nag, and that's how she inadvertently gets her hands on a "stolen" race horse. Our heroine nearly ends up with a lengthy prison term before the story is resolved during the climactic Big Race.
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In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat son. To gain some much needed attention, the lonesome fellow hires a hitman to kill him. Instead, the gunman kidnaps him to frighten the family into appreciating their devoted father.
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To stop his mother from marrying a man he doesn't like, a young millionaire hires an ex-con in helping him fake his own kidnaping.
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An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.
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Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, where his girl, Bangles Carson sings, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but is unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his daughter, Marthy Jane (Shirley Temple), as security, or in bookie's terms, a "marker". Having lost his bet, he commits suicide, leaving "little Miss Marker" under the care of Sorrowful Jones. As Steve hides out in Chicago to avoid investigation for his crooked bets, he entrusts Sorrowful to watch over Bangles during his absence, at which time the "gold digger" helps "tight-wod" with his trouble. When Big Steve learns Bangles is involved with Sorrowful, he returns to New York to do something about it.
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뉴욕의 가난한 사과 장수 애니는 태어나자마자 스페인의 수녀원으로 보내졌던 딸 루이즈에게 늘 편지를 쓰는데, 편지 속 애니는 뉴욕 상류층의 귀부인이다. 어느 날, 결혼을 앞둔 루이즈가 약혼자 카를로스와 예비 시아버지 로메로 백작과 함께 뉴욕을 방문하겠다고 하는데, 애니는 자신의 실체가 드러나면 딸의 결혼이 무산될지도 모른다는 두려움에 떤다. 한편, 애니의 사과는 행운을 가져다 준다고 믿는 멋쟁이 도박꾼 데이브가 기꺼이 애니를 돕기로 한다. 루이즈 일행이 뉴욕항에 도착하는 날, 애니는 E. 워딩턴 맨빌 부인이 되어 그들을 맞이한다. 카프라와 만나 ‘카프리스킨 터치’를 만들어낸 각본가 로버트 리스킨이 데이먼 러니언의 단편을 각색했다. 이 작품으로 카프라는 흥행 감독의 위치를 공고히 했으며, 처음으로 아카데미상 후보에 오르기도 했다. (영화의 전당)
