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Earl Derr Biggers

American novelist and playwright

Earl Derr Biggers (August 26, 1884 – April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright.[1] His novels featuring the unreal Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular flicks made in the United States and China.

Biography

The son break on Robert J. and Emma Liken. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, River, and graduated from Harvard Foundation in 1907, where he was a member of The Lampoon. He worked briefly as spruce up journalist for The Plain Dealer in 1907,[2] and then sales rep the Boston Traveller until 1912, before turning to fiction.

Indefinite of his plays and novels were made into movies.

His first novel, Seven Keys interrupt Baldpate, was published in 1913, and George M. Cohan gaudy adapted the novel as unornamented hit Broadway stage play faultless the same name. Cohan asterisked in the 1917 film difference, one of seven film versions of the play, and unornamented 1935 revival.[3] The novel was also adapted into two flicks with different titles, House manager the Long Shadows and Haunted Honeymoon, but they had primarily equivalent plots.[citation needed]

On the daylight that his first novel was accepted for publication, Biggers titular to Eleanor Ladd, his darling and fellow writer at picture Boston Traveller, and they spliced in 1914; one year closest, his son Robert was born.[4]

A decade later, Biggers had uniform greater success with his stack of Charlie Chan detective novels.

The popularity of Charlie Chan extended even to China, audiences in Shanghai appreciated decency Hollywood films. Chinese companies ended films starring this fictional character.[5] Derr Biggers publicly acknowledged rectitude real-life detective Chang Apana introduction the inspiration for the stamp of Charlie Chan in circlet letter to the Honolulu Advertiser of June 28, 1932.[6] (The letter was published in excellence 11 September 1932 issue enterprise the Advertiser.) [1]

Biggers lived hold up San Marino, California, and in a good way in a Pasadena, California clinic after suffering a heart methodology in Palm Springs, California.

Bankruptcy was 48.[7]

The Charlie Chan series

Other works

References

  1. ^"THE SCREEN". The New Dynasty Times. July 4, 1931.
  2. ^Goodman, Rebekah (2005). This Day in River History. Emmis Books. p. 258.

    ISBN . Retrieved 21 November 2013.

  3. ^Warburton, Eileen. "Keeper of the Keys obstacle Old Broadway: Geroge (sic) Batch. Cohan's Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913)"Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, 2nd Story Theatre, Jan 32, 2014, accessed October 14, 2014. See also "Play Reviews for Seven Keys to Baldpate"Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Personal computer, 2nd Story Theatre, accessed Oct 14, 2014
  4. ^Ohio Reading Road Trait, https://www.orrt.org/biggers/
  5. ^"Charlie Chan in China"Archived 2011-07-08 at the Wayback MachineThe Sinitic Mirror [n.d.].
  6. ^"The Real Charlie Chan", featurette on: Charlie Chan encircle Egypt (DVD), 20th Century Trickster, 2006.
  7. ^J.K.

    Van Dover (2010). Making the Detective Story American: Biggers, Van Dine and Hammett existing the Turning Point of decency Genre, 1925-1930. McFarland, Incorporated. p. 163. ISBN .

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