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There was also ''Damon Runyan Theater'', which ran on Radio in the 1940s, and was also a short-lived TV series in 1955-56.
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There was also the anthology series ''Damon Runyan Runyon Theater'', which ran aired on Radio radio in the 1940s, and was also a short-lived TV series Creator/{{CBS}} television show in 1955-56.
1955–56.
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-->-- from "'''Dancing Dan's Christmas'''"
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Not to be confused with Creator/DamonRunyan.
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Damon Runyon (1880–1946) is an American journalist and author, best known for his short stories about the colorful gamblers, gangsters and hustlers of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity in the early part of the twentieth century. His stories are always narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style that avoids the use of contractions, or [[PresentTenseNarrative past and future tense]].
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Alfred Damon Runyon (1880–1946) is (October 4, 1880 – December 10, 1946) was an American journalist and author, best known for his short stories about the colorful gamblers, gangsters and hustlers of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity in the early part of the twentieth century. His stories are always narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style that avoids the use of contractions, or [[PresentTenseNarrative past and future tense]].
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* ''Film/ASlightCaseOfMurder''
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There was also ''Damon Runyan Theater'', which ran on Radio in the 1940s, and was also a short-lived TV series in 1955-56.
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"Forward" is a direction. "Foreword" is a part of a book!
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The frequently appearing newspaper reporter "Waldo Winchester" is an obvious stand-in for Runyon's fellow newsman Walter Winchell. The two men were friends and Winchell [[ActuallyPrettyFunny took it in stride]], even writing a forward for one of Runyon's short story collections where he noted that there was something familiar about this character.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The frequently appearing newspaper reporter "Waldo Winchester" is an obvious stand-in for Runyon's fellow newsman Walter Winchell. The two men were friends and Winchell [[ActuallyPrettyFunny took it in stride]], even writing a forward foreword for one of Runyon's short story collections where he noted that there was something familiar about this character.
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* ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'', an ill-advised adaptation of four different stories smashed together. Most notable for Music/{{Madonna}} playing a nightclub singer in the middle of her ill-fated attempt to become a respectable actress.
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* ''Bloodhounds of Broadway'', an ill-advised a ScrewedByTheNetwork adaptation of four different stories smashed together.together, was a TroubledProduction to say the least, not the least of which was the director dying of AIDS before production was completed. Most notable for Music/{{Madonna}} playing a nightclub singer in the middle of her ill-fated attempt to become a respectable actress.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The frequently appearing newspaper reporter "Waldo Winchester" is an obvious stand-in for Runyon's fellow newsman Walter Winchell. The two men were friends and Winchell [[ActuallyPrettyFunny took it in stride]], even writing a forward for one of Runyon's short story collections where he noted that there was something familiar about this character.
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* HighClassGlass: In "Gentlemen, the King!", the characters encounter several Ruritanian noblemen with monocles, leading Kitty Quick to wonder if there is anybody in Ruritania who has two working eyes.
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* HighClassGlass: HighClassGlass:
** Invoked in "The Big Umbrella", where the deposed king of a Ruritanian country is trying to make a living in New York. His agent attempts to get him to wear a monocle for the sake of his public image, but he declines, saying he never got the hang of getting them to stay in place.
** In "Gentlemen, the King!", the characters encounter several Ruritanian noblemen with monocles, leading Kitty Quick to wonder if there is anybody in Ruritania who has two working eyes.
** Invoked in "The Big Umbrella", where the deposed king of a Ruritanian country is trying to make a living in New York. His agent attempts to get him to wear a monocle for the sake of his public image, but he declines, saying he never got the hang of getting them to stay in place.
** In "Gentlemen, the King!", the characters encounter several Ruritanian noblemen with monocles, leading Kitty Quick to wonder if there is anybody in Ruritania who has two working eyes.
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* {{Ruritania}}: "The Big Umbrella" and "Gentlemen, the King!" both feature kings of countries like this.
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* {{Ruritania}}: {{Ruritania}}:
** In "The BigUmbrella" Umbrella", the king of a nameless Ruritania gets deposed by a military coup, and winds up in New York with no money. (A character remarks that this is happening so often nowadays that ex-kings are becoming something of a nuisance.) This particular ex-king gets a job as a prize-fighter, which gives him some useful skills and acquaintances when he goes to get his throne back.
** In "Gentlemen, the King!"both feature kings a group of countries like this.Philadelphia gangsters are hired to go to a Ruritania and assassinate the king.
** In "The Big
** In "Gentlemen, the King!"
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* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in "What, No Butler?"
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* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in "What, No Butler?"Butler?". The narrator tries to pin the blame for a murder on the butler because that's always how murder stories go. His associate tells him he's being ridiculous and it turns out the victim didn't even have a butler of any kind. [[spoiler:However, the perpetrator does coincidentally turn out to be an unemployed high-class butler.]]
* CopKiller: The protagonist of "Earthquake", kills a cop accidentally in the course of a barfight, then flees New York, ending up in Nicaragua.
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* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: The anonymous narrator (or narrators -- when he is so anonymous, who can tell?).
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* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: The anonymous Most of Runyon's short stories are told from the perspective of an unnamed narrator (or narrators -- when he is so anonymous, who can tell?).is given no physical description and self-describes as "a guy who is just around". His purpose is to follow around observing the antics of more interesting characters. He does occasionally assist in the events of the stories, but is never the focus, and never kicks off the action. He's just as likely to have the entire story told to him after the fact by someone else.
* GenteelInterbellumSetting
* HaveAGayOldTime: Characters refer to their "straight monikers" -- their real names, as opposed to nicknames like Harry the Horse.
* HaveAGayOldTime: Characters refer to their "straight monikers" -- their real names, as opposed to nicknames like Harry the Horse.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Blind Benny and Little Yid in "For A Pal". Blind Benny is, naturally, blind, and Little Yid goes everywhere with him, guiding him and describing things for him. The narrator spends several paragraphs describing their relationship:
-->I am telling you all this about Little Yid and Benny to show you that they are very close friends indeed. They live together and eat together and argue together, and nobody ever hears of a nicer friendship on Broadway, although naturally some citizens figure for a while that one or the other must have some angle in this friendship, as it is practically uncanny for a friendship to last all these years on Broadway.
-->I am telling you all this about Little Yid and Benny to show you that they are very close friends indeed. They live together and eat together and argue together, and nobody ever hears of a nicer friendship on Broadway, although naturally some citizens figure for a while that one or the other must have some angle in this friendship, as it is practically uncanny for a friendship to last all these years on Broadway.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Dave the Dude in "Romance in the Roaring Forties" may be the sort of guy who will get sored up at a man for taking a second peek at his doll Miss Billy Perry, but when she says she loves Waldo Winchester, he plans them an elaborate surprise wedding. [[spoiler:However, it turns out that Waldo Winchester is already married, and his wife crashes the party, so Dave the Dude gets Miss Billy Perry in the end, but it is the thought that counts, after all.]]
* LostHimInACardGame: The premise of "Little Miss Marker".
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* PrincessForADay: Apple Annie in "Madame La Gimp".
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* PrincessForADay: Apple Annie in "Madame La Gimp". She has been telling her daughter in Spain that she is a New York socialite. When the daughter arrives with her fiancé, the son of a Spanish count, a mobster who considers her apples good luck helps Annie maintain the charade to avoid humiliating her daughter and ruining the engagement.
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* SignatureStyle: Anonymous {{First Person Peripheral Narrator}}s with PresentTenseNarrative and a mixture of period slang and DelusionsOfEloquence.
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* WouldntHurtAChild: Runyon's characters are criminals, but this is a line they do not ever cross. In "Gentlemen, the King!" three hoods hired to knock off a European king abort the mission instantly upon finding that the King in question is a child, and end up assassinating the man who hired them, instead.
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* RecklessGunUsage: In "Gentlemen, the King!", a gangster who has been charmed by a small boy lets the kid hold his handgun without making sure the safety it on, and while the kid is waving it around shouting "boom-boom" it goes off, destroying a vase and damaging a hat but fortunately not injuring any of the people in the room.
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* RecklessGunUsage: In "Gentlemen, the King!", a gangster who has been charmed by a small boy lets the kid hold his handgun without making sure the safety it is on, and while the kid is waving it around shouting "boom-boom" it goes off, destroying a vase and damaging a hat but fortunately not injuring any of the people in the room.
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* PityTheKidnapper: The kidnappers in "The Snatching of Bookie Bob" successfully get a $25,000 ransom for him. Unfortunately for them, they spent their time waiting for the payment gambling with Bob, and end up owing him $50,000.
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* WalkingArmory: The general public is led to believe that Tobias "Twelve-Gun" Tweeney is one of these in "Tobias the Terrible" - although the guns weren't his, and he can't even take a single step without falling over.
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* PricelessMingVase: In "Gentlemen, the King!", one of the casualties of the incursion into the king's bedroom is "a big jar over in one corner of the room, which Miss Peabody afterwards tells me is worth fifteen G's if it is worth a dime".
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* EvilUncle: In "Gentlemen, the King!", the plot on the king's life originates with his uncle, who is next in line to the throne.
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* PistolWhipping: Happens to the king's guard in "Gentlemen, the King!":
-->Izzy Cheesecake taps him on the noggin with the butt of a forty-five, and knocks him cock-eyed.
-->Izzy Cheesecake taps him on the noggin with the butt of a forty-five, and knocks him cock-eyed.
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* RecklessGunUsage: In "Gentlemen, the King!", a gangster who has been charmed by a small boy lets the kid hold his handgun without making sure the safety it on, and while the kid is waving it around shouting "boom-boom" it goes off, destroying a vase and damaging a hat but fortunately not injuring any of the people in the room.
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* HeelFaceTurn: In "Johnny One-Eye," a mortally wounded gangster makes friends with a mortally wounded kitten, and decides to do some good at the end of his life.
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* HeelFaceTurn: In Runyon's characters are often a brutal bunch, but they occasionally slip into virtue. For example, in "Johnny One-Eye," a mortally wounded gangster makes friends with a mortally wounded kitten, and decides to do some good at the end of his life.life, while the title character of "Earthquake" pulls off an HeroicSacrifice.
* HeroicSacrifice: The title character of "Earthquake" pulls off the terminal version of a classic LoadBearingHero scene.
* HeroicSacrifice: The title character of "Earthquake" pulls off the terminal version of a classic LoadBearingHero scene.
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* LoadBearingHero: The title character in "Earthquake"."Earthquake" pulls off the HeroicSacrifice version. Even he seems uncertain why he doesn't drop the building on the cop who was chasing him when everyone else is clear...
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-->'Yes,' he says, after a while, 'I know you. At first I think maybe you are a ghost, as I once hear something about your being dead. But,' he says, 'I see now the report is a canard. You are too fat to be a ghost.'
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-->'Well, Frank,' she says, 'do you know me?'
-->'Yes,'me?'\\
'Yes,' he says, after a while, 'I know you. At first I think maybe you are a ghost, as I once hear something about your being dead. But,' he says, 'I see now the report is a canard. You are too fat to be a ghost.'
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* ProfessionalGambler: Many of these, including Sky Masterson, Big Nig the crap shooter, and Regret the horse player.
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* ProfessionalGambler: Many of these, these appear, including Sky Masterson, Big Nig the crap shooter, and Regret the horse player.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: In "The Lacework Kid," the Kid outwits a POW camp commandant who is addicted to Gin Rummy, and the scheming of the commandant's disloyal subordinates leads to all the prisoners going free.
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* ThoseWackyNazis: In "The Lacework Kid," the Kid outwits a POW [=PoW=] camp commandant who is addicted to Gin Rummy, and the scheming of the commandant's disloyal subordinates leads to all the prisoners going free.
