Beggar on Horseback

New York: Boni & Liveright, (1924).

Price: $250.00

Hardcover. Second printing. Two pages in the middle of the text are darkened where a parody newspaper was tipped-in and is now partially lacking, as usual with this title, some chipping to the bottom of the paper spine label, about very good lacking the dustwrapper. This copy is Inscribed by Connelly to a Broadway producer: "To Sidley Brown, Who gave me another automobile. Marc Connelly, Christmas, 1925." A splendid association. Basis for the 1925 James Cruze film featuring Edward Everett Horton, famous for its fantastic, surrealistic dream sequence, reminiscent of German cinema of the time but unlike anything else produced in America in that era.

Item #39712

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Item #39712 Beggar on Horseback. George S. KAUFMAN, Marc Connelly.

Marc Connelly
birth name: Marcus Cook Connelly
born: 12/13/1890
died: 12/21/1980

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American playwright, journalist, teacher, actor, and director, best know for "Green Pastures" (a folk version of the Old Testament dramatized through the lives of blacks of the southern United States) and for the comedies that he wrote with George S. Kaufman. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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