Damon Runyon
Nascimento : 1884-10-04, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Morte : 1946-12-10
História
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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.
Writer
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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O agenciador Jones aceita uma criança como garantia de um pagamento, mas o pai da menina morre afogado e ele é forçado a cuidar dela. Quando um chefão da máfia força Jones a participar de um cassino ilegal na casa de uma herdeira endividada, ele tenta enganar o gângster, ao mesmo tempo que tenta fazer o papel de pai.
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Conto de fadas de Damon Runyon, carinhoso e engraçado, contado pelo diretor Frank Capra. A preciosa Annie das Maçãs, uma mendiga com uma cesta de maçãs, é tão parte do centro de Nova York quanto a própria Broadway. O contrabandista Dave Dude é um fã das suas maçãs, ele acha que elas dão sorte. Mas Dave e sua namorada Queenie Martin precisam de muito mais do que sorte quando se descobre que Annie está em uma enrascada e só eles podem ajudar: a filha de Annie, Louise, que viveu toda sua vida em um convento espanhol pago pela pobre Annie, está vindo para a América com um Conde e seu filho. O filho do conde quer se casar com Louise, que acha que sua mãe faz parte da alta sociedade de Nova York. Cabe a Dave e Queenie e seus peculiares companheiros transformar Annie em uma dama e convencer o conde e seu filho que eles estão se unindo a elite de Nova York.
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Comédia musical ambientada no submundo de Nova York, entre pequenos furtos e jogadores profissionais. Marlon Brando é o jogador Sky Masterson e Jean Simmons, uma voluntária do Exército da Salvação. Frank Sinatra completa o trio como o banqueiro Nathan. A história começa quando Brando é desafiado a levar a missionária Simmons para Havana. A aposta funciona até que eles se apaixonam. Oportunidade de se ver e ouvir Marlon Brando cantando "Luck Be A Lady", enquanto Sinatra entoa "Guys And Dolls" e "Adelaide".
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Herman (Dean Martin) é viciado em jogos de corridas de cavalo. Cheio de dívidas, se arrisca mais uma vez em uma corrida, pois, se ganhar, poderá pagá-las. Ele vai a uma corrida ao lado de seu primo Virgil (Jerry Lewis) e lá se apaixonam por duas garotas. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Theatre Play
A gangster and his wife attempt to go straight. Comedy. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
Writer
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.
Story
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.
Producer
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.
Story
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.
Writer
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.
Author
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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O gangster transforma a Annie das Maçãs, mendiga da Times Square, em Dama por um Dia. A Annie das Maçãs é uma indigente que sempre escreve cartas para sua filha na Espanha e diz nas cartas que é da alta sociedade de Nova York. Com sua filha repentinamente vindo para a América com seu novo noivo e o pai do noivo, um membro da aristocracia espanhola, Annie precisa manter sua encenação de riqueza ou o conde não dará sua bênção ao casamento. Ela recebe ajuda inesperada de Dave the Dude, uma figura bem conhecida no submundo de Nova York, que considera Annie o seu amuleto de boa sorte. Ele lhe oferece um apartamento de luxo para entreter os visitantes - mas esse ato de bondade incomum de um homem com uma reputação vergonhosa desperta suspeitas, levando a complicações que fazem com que as coisas não saiam exatamente como foram planejadas.
Refilmado pelo mesmo diretor em Dama por Um Dia (1961).
