Paul Gallico
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Paul William Gallico (July 26, 1897 – July 15, 1976) was an American novelist, short story and sports writer.
Many of his works were adapted for motion pictures.
He is perhaps best remembered for The Snow Goose, his only real critical success, and for the novel The Poseidon Adventure, primarily through the 1972 film adaptation.
Later life
On resigning from the Daily News to become a full-time fiction writer, Gallico moved from New York to the town of Salcombe, England. Later he lived in different regions of the world, including other parts of England, Mexico, Liechtenstein and Monaco. He spent the last part of his life in Antibes, France, and was buried there after his death from a heart attack in 1976, aged 78, which is variously reported to have happened in Antibes or Monaco.
In 1955, Gallico took an automobile tour of the United States, traveling some 10,000 miles, sponsored by Reader's Digest. He wrote that "it had been almost twenty years since I had traveled extensively through my own country and the changes brought about by two decades would thus stand out." Several stories resulted.
Early life and career
Gallico was born in 1897 in New York City. His father, Paolo Gallico, was an Italian concert pianist, composer, and music educator, and they lived in New York, 1955-54; their mother, Hortense Erlich, immigrated to New York in 1895. Gallico's graduation from Columbia University was postponed to 1921 after serving a year and a half in the United States Army during World War I. He first became well-known in the 1920s as a sportswriter, sports columnist, and sports editor for the New York Daily News.
"Fortuitous beauty and unquestionable courage, there has always been something mildly odd about the big-time lady athletes," he said in Gallico's "Farewell to Sport." "The game places a premium on an alert, scheming mind, flashy gadgetry, artful dodging, and general smart aleckness," Gallico wrote in the same book.
Gallico's career was started in an interview with boxer Jack Dempsey, in which he begged Dempsey to spar with him. Gallico related to how it was supposed to be knocked out by the heavyweight champion. He continued with accounts of catching Dizzy Dean's fastball and golfing with Bobby Jones. He became one of the country's highest-paid sportswriters. He created the Golden Gloves amateur boxing competition. Lou Gehrig: Pride of the Yankees (1941), which was based on Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright's book "The Pride of the Yankees (1942), was adapted into the sports movie The Pride of the Yankees (1942).
Career as a fiction writer
He switched from sports writing to fiction in the late 1930s, first constructing an essay titled "Farewell to Sport" (published in an anthology of his sports writing, as well as "Farewell to Sport (1938)), and then becoming a good writer of short stories for magazines, many of which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, a late-premier fiction outlet. His novella The Snow Goose and other related books are extended versions of his magazine stories.
"I'm a rotten novelist," Gallico confessed to New York magazine. And I'm not even literary. I just love to tell stories, and all my books tell tales... If I'd been born 2,000 years ago, I'd be going to caves, and I'd say, 'Can I come in?' I'm hungry. I'd like some supper. I'll tell you a tale in exchange. There were two apes at one time.' And I'd tell them a tale about two cavemen."
Gallico published The Adventures of Hiram Holliday in 1939, the first television adaptation with Wally Cox. It depicts a modern American knight-errant's comedic adventures on the brink of World War II and waging a single-handed, ferocious war against the Nazis in several countries. Gallico's roots are apparent in the book's strong Habsburg Monarchist theme. (The protagonist rescues an Austrian princess, wins her love, and cares for her young son, who, according to the book, will be destined to become the new Habsburg Emperor after the Nazis are driven out of Austria.)
In 1941, The Snow Goose was published in The Saturday Evening Post and received the O. Henry Award for short stories. "Maybe the most sentimental tale that has ever has embodied the dignity of a Borzoi [premier imprint of publisher Knopf] imprint, according to critic Robert van Gelder. It's a timeless legend with a timeless appeal that might be cramming into it." It appears in a public library as one of "tearjerkers." Gallico made no excuses, saying that "in the contest between emotion and'slime,'sentiment' is so far behind in front, that the calamity-howlers and porn merchants must always have and will remain so depressed," the fetus of their nefariousness of their shaming looms, the concealment of their brutality, and the mountainous spits of filth's filth must s o
Gallico's short story "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" was dramatized as Attraction 66 of the NBC radio show "Radio City Playhouse," on December 25, 1949. It tells the humourous tale of a New York newspaper reporter and photographer as they embarked on a Christmas Eve wild goose chase by their publisher's wife for two goats harnessed to a tiny red wagon, which she plans to give her nephews for Christmas. The reporter and photographer followed the evening's most exciting news stories, which they must reportedly ignore in favour of the chore set out by their publisher's wife during a night of booing a few beers along the way. The radio dramatization is still popular among Old Time Radio listeners and is featured on Sirius XM Radio Classics each year.
His short story "The Man Who Hated People" was turned into an unpublished short story "The Seven Souls of Clement O'Reilly," which was later staged as the musical Carnival. (1961): The 61-year-old clockmaker (1861). The film Lili is a tense, whimsical fairy tale about an orphanage girl whose destiny is mixed with that of a traveling carnival and its performers, a lothario magician, and an embittered puppeteer. Gallico wrote "The Man Who Hatched People" in 1954, based on "The Man Who Hated People." Although the versions are different, they all follow the same theme concerning the girl and the puppeteer. The puppeteer, who works with Lili as a survivor of a mythical voice, creates a platform through which each of them can freely express their inner pain and illusion.
Gallico spent time in Liechtenstein, where he wrote Ludmila, the retelling of a local legend in the 1950s.
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris (1958) was a best-selling book, and it became the first of four books about the lovable charwoman Mrs. 'Arris.' The character was described by The New York Times as "perhaps Mr. Gallico's most beloved creation." When he first arrived in Salcombe in 1960, film rights were discussed as early as 1960. In 1992, Angela Lansbury's "it" was released as a TV movie.
During his stay in Salcombe, Gallico, Prince Victoria's sinking, the ferry that plied between Larne and Stranraer, killed just 44 people out of 179, leaving just 44 out of 179. At this time, it was his custom to wander in his garden dictating to his assistant Mel Menzies, who later typed the manuscript in the evening, allowing it to be included in the newspaper.
The Silent Miaow (1964) claims to be a guide written by a cat, "translated from the feline," on how to attract, capture, and rule a human family. It is a classic among cat lovers, illustrated with photographs by Suzanne Szasz. Jennie (1950) (American title The Abandoned), Thomasina, the Cat Who Thought She Was God (1957), Thomasina, the Cat Who Was Not God (1961), a book of poetry and essays about cats, as well as the Russian remake Belizina.
At the time, Gallico's 1969 book The Poseidon Adventure, about a group of passengers attempting to recover from a capsized ocean liner, attracted little attention. The New York Times gave it a one-paragraph review, noting that "Mr. Gallico has a Grand Hotel" (a reference to the 1930 Vicki Baum novel) has a full shipboard dossier. These interlocking histories can be depressing both sentimentality and brine, as well as brine—but the author's skill as a storyteller instills in them with enough suspense to last the journey." In comparison, Irwin Allen's motion picture recreation of Gallico's book became a hit straight away. "What makes 'Poseidon' Fun," he writes in his book. "Worth, The High and the Mighty, A Night to Remember, and Titanic (the 1953 film)" is a reviewer. "The Poseidon Journey" puts the Ark Movie back where God intended it to be, in the water, according to he. Not flying around in the air on one engine or with a hole in its side," says the author. The film was a huge hit, during a decade of disaster films, and it is now a cult classic.
Molly Ivins said in his New York Times obituary that "to say that Mr. Gallico was prolific hardly begins to quantify his output." He wrote 41 books, many short films, 20 theatrical films, 12 TV shows, and produced a TV series based on his Hiram Holliday short stories.
