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BIRTHDAY
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DIED
December 10, 1946

RECENT CREDITS
Bloodhounds of Broadway (FILM)  Nov. 3, 1989
Little Miss Marker (FILM)  Mar. 21, 1980
40 Pounds of Trouble (FILM)  Feb. 1, 1963
A Pocketful of Miracles (FILM)  Dec. 1, 1961
Guys and Dolls (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1955
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BIOGRAPHY
Star reporter turned short story writer whose distinctive style of writing and verbiage helped popularize such phrases on "croak" (as in "to die"), "put up your dukes", "monkey business" and "drop dead". Runyon's....
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Star reporter turned short story writer whose distinctive style of writing and verbiage helped popularize such phrases on "croak" (as in "to die"), "put up your dukes", "monkey business" and "drop dead". Runyon's colorful big-city characters--often gangsters or bookies who were tough on the outside, but generally pure mush on the inside--spoke a unique variation on Brooklynese as they enacted cynical yet whimsical comic situations. "Runyonesque" entered the lexicon to describe the author's distinctive universe, which inspired and influenced an incredible amount of multimedia entertainment in subsequent decades. The Broadway musical "Guys and Dolls" was one of the most successful evocations of Runyon's humor, and the many, many adaptations of his work include "Lady for a Day" (1933) and its remake "A Pocketful of Miracles" (1961), "The Lemon Drop Kid" (1934, 1951), "A Slight Case of Murder" (1938), and at least three versions of "Little Miss Marker".
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