Lady for a Day is based on the short story written by the newspaperman of what nationality?
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Lady for a Day Lady for a Day is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy-drama film directed by Frank Capra. The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the short story "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon. It was the first film for which Capra received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director and the first Columbia Pictures release to be nominated for Best Picture.
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Damon Runyon Alfred Damon Runyon (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American newspaperman and short story writer.
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The Woman's Era The Woman's Era was the first national newspaper published by and for African-American women. It was founded in 1894 by Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, who served as its editor and publisher until 1897. "The Woman's Era" played an important role in the national African-American women's club movement.
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Joseph Alexander Altsheler Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 – June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least forty-nine short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series:
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The Sea Raiders "The Sea Raiders" is a short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1896 in "The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement". It was included in "The Plattner Story and Others", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Methuen & Co. in 1897. It was included in "The Country of the Blind and Other Stories", a collection of short stories by Wells published by Thomas Nelson & Sons in 1911.
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The Ice Palace "The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post, 22 May 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, "Flappers and Philosophers" (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection "Babylon Revisited and Other Stories" (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960).
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An Unfinished Race "An Unfinished Race" is a short story by American Civil War soldier, wit, and writer Ambrose Bierce. The story, dealing with a mysterious disappearance of a man, was first published in "The San Francisco Examiner" on October 14, 1888 and was included in Bierce's collection "Can Such Things Be?" (1893). Bierce himself mysteriously disappeared in October 1913.
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Doris Fleeson Doris Fleeson (May 20, 1901 – August 1, 1970) was an American journalist and columnist and was the first woman in the United States to have a nationally syndicated political column.
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Marvin H. McIntyre Marvin Hunter McIntyre (27 November 1878 – 13 December 1943) was an American journalist and Presidential Secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR).
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A Trap to Catch a Cracksman A Trap to Catch a Cracksman was a short story written by Ernest William Hornung featuring his most famous creation A. J. Raffles, a cricketer and Gentleman thief. It was first published in 1905 in the collection A Thief in the Night.
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Western Union Boy "Western Union Boy" is a short story written by Nathanael West in the early 1930s; it was not published in West's lifetime and appears only in the Library of America edition of his collected work: "Novels & Other Writings".
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Edmund Bannerman Edmund Bannerman (1832–17 April 1903) was a journalist, newspaper proprietor and lawyer in the British colony of the Gold Coast. He was one of the many Bannermans who flourished in the 19th-century Gold Coast in various public activities.
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William Norman Ewer William Norman Ewer (22 October 188525 January 1977) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. He was known as William or Norman, and by the nickname Trilby. He was prominent writing on foreign affairs for the London "Daily Herald". It is now increasingly well established that he spied for the Soviet Union during the 1920s.
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The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper "The Queer Story of Brownlow's Newspaper" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in the February 1932 issue of the "Ladies' Home Journal".
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Lionel Blue Lionel Blue, (6 February 1930 – 19 December 2016) was a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster, described by "The Guardian" as "one of the most respected religious figures in the UK". He was best known for his longstanding work with the media, most notably his wry and gentle sense of humour on "Thought for the Day" on BBC Radio 4's "Today programme". He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality.
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Jim Bishop James Alonzo Bishop (November 21, 1907 – July 26, 1987) was an American journalist and author who wrote the bestselling book "The Day Lincoln was Shot".
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Emily Grierson Emily Grierson, also referred to Miss Emily in the text, is the main character of the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Miss Emily is described as “a small, fat woman” who lived within a modernizing town full of people who saw her as a very cold, very distant woman who lived in her past. Throughout the story, she is referred to by her fellow townspeople as a tradition, a duty, and a care, and is portrayed as a very mean, stubborn old woman. However, as her story unfolds, Faulkner wants readers to sympathize with her because of the amount of loss that she's had to cope with throughout her life.
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H. B. Marriott Watson Henry Brereton Marriott Watson (20 December 1863 – 30 October 1921), known by his pen name H.B. Marriott Watson, was an Australian-born British novelist, journalist, playwright, and short-story writer. He worked for the "St. James Gazette", was assistant editor of the "Black and White" and "Pall Mall Gazette", and staff member on W.E. Henley's "National Observer".
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Emsley Carr Sir William Emsley Carr (1 May 1867–5 August 1941) was a British newspaper editor, who edited the "News of the World" for more than fifty years.
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Frank Harrison Hill Frank Harrison Hill (1830–1910) was an English journalist.
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His Chance in Life "His Chance in Life" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling. It was first published in the first Indian edition of "Plain Tales from the Hills" (1888), and in subsequent editions of that collection. The story is illuminating about Kipling's attitudes to race, which are less cut-and-dried than is often thought. Kipling is interesting, if not very detailed, on people of mixed race and the snobberies involved. (For some detail, see the Kipling Society notes.)
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John Medway Day John Medway Day (24 February 1838 – 8 July 1905), generally known as J. Medway Day, was an English-born Australian journalist, Baptist minister and activist.