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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 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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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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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 narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style [[PresentTenseNarrative that avoids past and future tense]].
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Damon Runyon (1880 – 1946) (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 narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style that avoids the use of contractions, or [[PresentTenseNarrative that avoids past and future tense]].
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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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* VerbalTic: No one uses contractions. ''Ever''.
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* FriendToAllChildren: Runyon's characters are a hard-bitten bunch, but they rally around fast when a child is in need [[spoiler: in "Little Miss Marker,"]] and in [[spoiler: "Gentlemen, the King!"]] they refuse a lucrative murder contract when they find out that the target is a child.
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* FriendToAllChildren: FriendToAllChildren:
** Runyon's characters are a hard-bitten bunch, but they rally around fast when a child is in need[[spoiler: in "Little Miss Marker,"]] and in [[spoiler: Marker".
** In "Gentlemen, theKing!"]] they King!", the characters refuse a lucrative murder contract when they find out that the target is a child.
** Runyon's characters are a hard-bitten bunch, but they rally around fast when a child is in need
** In "Gentlemen, the
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* FriendToAllChildren: Runyon's characters are a hard-bitten bunch, but they rally around fast when a child is in need [[spoiler: in "Little Miss Marker,"]] and in [[spoiler: "Gentlemen, the King!"]] they refuse a lucrative murder contract when they find out that the target is a child.
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* ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', an early hit for ShirleyTemple.
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* ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', an early hit for ShirleyTemple.
Creator/ShirleyTemple.
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* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: The climax of "Undertaker Song." A character at the big Harvard-Yale is mistaken for a Harvard supporter in a red scarf, but in fact his throat's been cut.
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* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: The climax of "Undertaker Song." A character at the big Harvard-Yale game is mistaken for a Harvard supporter in a red scarf, but in fact his throat's been cut.
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Many of his stories are available at [[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks11/1100651h.html Project Gutenberg Australia]].
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Big Jule in "The Hottest Guy in the World" goes back to New York -- where the police all all after him -- to visit his "maw."
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Big Jule in "The Hottest Guy in the World" goes back to New York -- where the police all are all after him for a long string of violent crimes -- to visit his "maw."
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* PresentTenseNarrativePresentTenseNarrative: Not only are the "Broadway" stories all in present tense, but every line (whether of narrative or of dialogue, and whether of past or present events) is in the present tense.
--> "Yes," she says. "It is about him. He is a pig," she says. "I shoot him, and I am glad of it. He is not satisfied with what he does to me two years ago, but he tries his deviltry on my baby sister."
--> "Yes," she says. "It is about him. He is a pig," she says. "I shoot him, and I am glad of it. He is not satisfied with what he does to me two years ago, but he tries his deviltry on my baby sister."
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* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: The climax of "Undertaker Song."
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* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Big Jule in "The Hottest Guy in the World" goes back to New York -- where the police all all after him -- to visit his "maw."
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* ProfessionalKiller: Asleep in "Situation Wanted." Don Pep in "Too Much Pep." Ropes McGonnigle in "Sense of Humor."
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* ProfessionalKiller: Asleep in "Situation Wanted." Wanted". Don Pep in "Too Much Pep." Pep". Ropes McGonnigle [=McGonnigle=] in "Sense of Humor." Humor".
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* ProfessionalKiller: Asleep in "Situation Wanted." Don Pep in "Too Much Pep." Ropes McGonnigle in "Sense of Humor."
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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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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Lou Adolia, in "Cemetery Bait," is supposed to arrange to return the stolen jewelry, collect a payment from the insurance company, then split the loot with the other conspirators. He gets as far as collecting the payment, then "disappears with all the sugar, and without as much as saying aye, yes, or no to anybody."
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Lou Adolia, in "Cemetery Bait," is supposed to arrange to return the stolen jewelry, collect a payment from the insurance company, then split the loot with the other conspirators. He gets as far as collecting the payment, then "disappears with all the sugar, and without as much as saying aye, yes, or no to anybody." payment.
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* NoHonorAmongThieves: Lou Adolia, in "Cemetery Bait," is supposed to arrange to return the stolen jewelry, collect a payment from the insurance company, then split the loot with the other conspirators. He gets as far as collecting the payment, then "disappears with all the sugar, and without as much as saying aye, yes, or no to anybody."
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* TakeMeOutAtTheBallGame: The climax of "Undertaker Song."
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* {{Ruritania}}: "The Big Umbrella" and "Gentlemen, the King!" both feature kings of countries like this.
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* {{Ruritania}}: "The Big Umbrella" and "Gentlemen, the King!" both feature kings of countries like this. this.
* 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.
* 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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* HypocriticalHumor: Near the beginning of "Dream Street Rose", the narrator remarks that in his opinion anyone who bets on horse races has something wrong with their head. Near the end of the story, he buys a newspaper so he can check the racing results and see if his latest bet has paid off.
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* LeaveBehindAPistol: In "Dream Street Rose", the protagonist is described doing this for the man who ruined her, though at least one of the listeners in the frame story doubts that the confrontation went down quite that way.
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* AndThatLittleGirlWasMe: In "Dream Street Rose", Rose tells the FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator a lengthy story about "a friend", which is all but stated outright to be her own life story.
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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, including Sky Masterson, Big Nig the crap shooter, and Regret the horse player.\
* {{Ruritania}}: "The Big Umbrella" and "Gentlemen, the King!" both feature kings of countries like this.
* {{Ruritania}}: "The Big Umbrella" and "Gentlemen, the King!" both feature kings of countries like this.
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* CardSharp: The Lacework Kid ("Lacework" refers to his skill with cards).
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Runyon's characters are criminals, but there are lines they will not cross.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Runyon's characters are criminals, but there are lines they will not cross. For example, in "Gentlemen, the King!" the protagonists are hired to assassinate the king of an unnamed {{Ruritania}}, but balk when they discover he's only a kid.
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* NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe: In "Dream Street Rose," the protagonist is ruined by her good-for-nothing husband as a young girl. She waits a couple of decades, when he's remarried and is on top of the world, and confronts him as her wrecked old gin-soaked self:
-->'Well, Frank,' she says, 'do you know 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.'
-->'Well, Frank,' she says, 'do you know 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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* ''LadyForADay''''Film/LadyForADay''
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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 New York UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity in the early part of the twentieth century. His stories are narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style [[PresentTenseNarrative that avoids past and future tense]].
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->''"Now one time it comes on Christmas, and in fact it is the evening before Christmas, and I am in Good Time Charley Bernstein's little speakeasy in West Forty-seventh Street, wishing Charley a Merry Christmas and having a few hot Tom and Jerrys with him."''
Damon Runyon (1880 – 1946) is an American journalist and author, best known for his short stories about the colorful gamblers, gangsters and hustlers of New York in the early part of the twentieth century. His stories are narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style [[PresentTenseNarrative that avoids past and future tense]].
Notable adaptations of Runyon stories include:
* ''GuysAndDolls''
* ''LadyForADay''
* ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', an early hit for ShirleyTemple.
!!Damon Runyon's stories provide examples of:
* BigEater: Nicely-Nicely Jones in "A Piece of Pie".
-->He is a horse player by trade, and eating is really just a hobby, but he is undoubtedly a wonderful eater even when he is not hungry.
* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in "What, No Butler?"
* DelusionsOfEloquence: The theme of mooks talking over their heads is a mainstay.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Runyon's characters are criminals, but there are lines they will not cross.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: The anonymous narrator (or narrators -- when he is so anonymous, who can tell?).
* LaserGuidedKarma: In "Dancing Dan's Christmas", Dancing Dan decides on a whim to borrow a drunken MallSanta's outfit and deliver Christmas cheer to some poverty-stricken persons of his acquaintance. This whim saves his life.
* LoadBearingHero: The title character in "Earthquake".
* PresentTenseNarrative
* PrincessForADay: Apple Annie in "Madame La Gimp".
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->''"Now one time it comes on Christmas, and in fact it is the evening before Christmas, and I am in Good Time Charley Bernstein's little speakeasy in West Forty-seventh Street, wishing Charley a Merry Christmas and having a few hot Tom and Jerrys with him."''
Damon Runyon (1880 – 1946) is an American journalist and author, best known for his short stories about the colorful gamblers, gangsters and hustlers of New York in the early part of the twentieth century. His stories are narrated in the first person by an anonymous narrator with a distinctive slang-laced style [[PresentTenseNarrative that avoids past and future tense]].
Notable adaptations of Runyon stories include:
* ''GuysAndDolls''
* ''LadyForADay''
* ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', an early hit for ShirleyTemple.
!!Damon Runyon's stories provide examples of:
* BigEater: Nicely-Nicely Jones in "A Piece of Pie".
-->He is a horse player by trade, and eating is really just a hobby, but he is undoubtedly a wonderful eater even when he is not hungry.
* TheButlerDidIt: Parodied in "What, No Butler?"
* DelusionsOfEloquence: The theme of mooks talking over their heads is a mainstay.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Runyon's characters are criminals, but there are lines they will not cross.
* FirstPersonPeripheralNarrator: The anonymous narrator (or narrators -- when he is so anonymous, who can tell?).
* LaserGuidedKarma: In "Dancing Dan's Christmas", Dancing Dan decides on a whim to borrow a drunken MallSanta's outfit and deliver Christmas cheer to some poverty-stricken persons of his acquaintance. This whim saves his life.
* LoadBearingHero: The title character in "Earthquake".
* PresentTenseNarrative
* PrincessForADay: Apple Annie in "Madame La Gimp".
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