The Dark Tower: A Melodrama

New York: Random House, 1934.

Price: $550.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with slight tanning to the white parts of the spine, a little loss at the crown, and a rubbed tear on the front panel. A play that became the basis for two films: *The Man With Two Faces* in 1934 directed by Archie Mayo, and featuring Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Ricardo Cortez, and Mae Clarke; and an eponymous version in 1943 directed by John Harlow and featuring Frederick Burtwell, Anne Crawford, and David Farrar. Scarce.

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Item #75997 The Dark Tower: A Melodrama. Alexander WOOLLCOTT, George S. Kaufman.

Alexander Woollcott
birth name: Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
born: 1/19/1887
died: 1/23/1943

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American author, critic, and actor known for his acerbic wit. He was the self-appointed leader of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal luncheon club at New York City's Algonquin Hotel in the 1920s and '30s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore