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| name = Gerald Butler | image = | caption = | birth_name = Gerald Alfred Butler | birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1907|7|31}} | birth_place = England | death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=yes|1988|2|1|1907|7|31}} | death_place = Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK | occupation = Novelist, screenwriter, chemist | nationality = English | period = 1940–1972 | genre = Crime, thriller, and mystery | spouse = | children = | partner = }}Gerald Butler (July 31, 1907 – February 1, 1988) was an English crime, mystery, thriller and pulp writer and screenwriter.[1] He was born on July 31, 1907 and worked as a chemist prior to becoming a novelist. He later worked as a director of an advertising firm.[2] He was sometimes referred to as the "English James M. Cain".[3][4] He was thirty-seven years old when his first novel, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, was published in 1940 by Jarrolds Publishing. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands became a best-seller and by 1945, it had sold over 232,000 copies in England alone (all during war-time).[5][6] In 1945, American publishers Farrar & Rinehart, were the first to publish one of Butler's novels outside of England. Their first release of Butler's work was his 1943 novel, Their Rainbow Had Black Edges, issued under the title Dark Rainbow.[7] Farrar & Rinehart went on to publish four more of his novels for the American market, between 1946 and 1951. Following the publication of his first four novels, Eagle-Lion Films bought the film rights to Kiss the Blood Off My Hands in 1946, hoping to turn it into a Robert Donat film.[8] After the option expired, the novel's film rights were sold to actor-turned-producer Burt Lancaster and his business partner Harold Hecht in mid-1947. The film was the first project for Lancaster's new production company, Norma Productions, and hit the screens in October 1948. The film starred Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster and Robert Newton and was released in some markets under the names The Unafraid or Blood on My Hands, due to censor issues. Meanwhile, producer/director Mario Zampi approached Butler in 1947 to collaborate on a film noir thriller, The Fatal Night. Butler adapted Michael Arlen's famous short story, The Gentleman From America into a screenplay for the film which was released in April 1948.[9] Butler and Zampi collaborated again a year later for the Zampi-produced Third Time Lucky, Butler's screen adaptation of his own novel They Cracked Her Glass Slipper. The film was released in January 1949 and was directed by Gordon Parry.[10] A third Butler novel was turned into a film, Mad with Much Heart, released as On Dangerous Ground. It starred Ida Lupino (who was also an uncredited director) and Robert Ryan and was directed by Nicholas Ray.[11] This last film adaption was released in 1951, the same year that Butler's sixth novel, Blow Hot, Blow Cold, was published. He withdrew from the writing industry for nearly twenty years before returning with his last novel, There Is a Death, Elizabeth, published in 1972. He died sixteen years later. Bibliography
Filmography
Publication historyKiss the Blood Off My Hands
They Cracked Her Glass Slipper
Their Rainbow Had Black Edges
Mad with Much Heart
Slippery Hitch
Blow Hot, Blow Cold
There Is a Death, Elizabeth
References1. ^https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0124926/?ref_=tt_ov_wr Gerald Butler, IMDB Credits {{Authority control}}2. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20160509181744/http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/d2IAAOSw9N1Vv~e-/s-l1600.jpg Back cover of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Rinehart Publishing, 1946 3. ^https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gerald-butler-3/mad-with-much-heart "Mad With Much Heart Review" Kirkus Reviews 4. ^https://archive.org/details/bookreviewdigest029766mbp "The Book Review Digest", The H. W. Wilson Company, 1947 5. ^https://web.archive.org/web/20160509181744/http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/d2IAAOSw9N1Vv~e-/s-l1600.jpg Back cover of Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Rinehart Publishing, 1946 6. ^http://www.royalbooks.com/pages/books/136016/gerald-butler/mad-with-much-heart-first-uk-edition Book cover of Mad with Much Heart, Jarrolds, first publishing. 7. ^https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sP8pAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SGgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1079%2C4816303 "Dark Rainbow", The Lewiston Daily Sun, November 30th 1945 8. ^http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/80430/Kiss-the-Blood-Off-My-Hands/notes.html Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Notes, Turner Classic Movies 9. ^https://www.allmovie.com/movie/alfred-hitchcock-presents-the-gentleman-from-america-v348299{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} The Gentleman From America filmed versions, All Movie 10. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040874/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Third Time Lucky, IMDB 11. ^http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85554/On-Dangerous-Ground/ On Dangerous Ground, Turner Classic Movies External links
6 : 1907 births|1988 deaths|British crime fiction writers|British mystery writers|British male novelists|Pulp fiction writers |
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