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The Days of the King With a Foreward by Sinclair Lewis Illustrations by Adolf von Menzel
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First published January 1, 1970
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Bruno Frank
73 books2 followersBruno Frank (June 13, 1887 – June 20, 1945) was a German author, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and humanist.
Frank was born in Stuttgart. He studied law and philosophy in Munich, where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933. Persecuted by the government because of his Jewish heritage, he left Nazi Germany with his wife, Liesl, daughter of famed Jewish operetta diva Fritzi Massary and Count Karl Coudenhove. They lived for four years in Austria and England, before emigrating in 1937 to the United States, where he was reunited with his friends Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann. Frank is considered part of the group of anti-Nazi writers whose works constitute German Exilliteratur. He continued to write, producing two novels, and worked in the film industry for the rest of his life.
Frank wrote the screenplay for the popular movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), directed by William Dieterle and starring Charles Laughton, based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Frank's play, Sturm im Wasserglas, was filmed in Great Britain, in 1937, as Storm in a Teacup, and posthumously made into a movie directed by Josef von Báky in 1960.
His nephew Anthony M. Frank became United States Postmaster General in 1988.
Frank died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Frank was born in Stuttgart. He studied law and philosophy in Munich, where he later worked as a dramatist and novelist until the Reichstag fire in 1933. Persecuted by the government because of his Jewish heritage, he left Nazi Germany with his wife, Liesl, daughter of famed Jewish operetta diva Fritzi Massary and Count Karl Coudenhove. They lived for four years in Austria and England, before emigrating in 1937 to the United States, where he was reunited with his friends Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann. Frank is considered part of the group of anti-Nazi writers whose works constitute German Exilliteratur. He continued to write, producing two novels, and worked in the film industry for the rest of his life.
Frank wrote the screenplay for the popular movie version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939 film), directed by William Dieterle and starring Charles Laughton, based on the novel by Victor Hugo. Frank's play, Sturm im Wasserglas, was filmed in Great Britain, in 1937, as Storm in a Teacup, and posthumously made into a movie directed by Josef von Báky in 1960.
His nephew Anthony M. Frank became United States Postmaster General in 1988.
Frank died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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November 27, 2024
'The Days Of The King' is an attempt to present an historical figure, someone associated with greatness, in a surprisingly humane and even vulgar fashion. Frederick the Great spends his last days in Prussia preparing for war and going about his business, touching upon the factors of his life, the reasons for his greatness and his philosophy of life.
We see not a super-man with a crown but a wisened old man who outwits his foes and whips his country into shape with his sharp tongue and mystifying self-deprecation.
We see not a super-man with a crown but a wisened old man who outwits his foes and whips his country into shape with his sharp tongue and mystifying self-deprecation.
August 6, 2012
Rarely do authors manage to capture a historical figure as wholly and eloquently as Frank does Frederick the Great in this set of vignettes. He does not idolize or demonize Fritz, but rather presents him as he was: a phenomenal person, but still a person at heart. There is not too much or too little history; neither is this a book of facts or a pack of idle speculations. Rather, it is a few poignant stories of a fascinating soul, very well-told.
May 28, 2013
Frank brings humanity to a historical figure of Frederick the Great and gives an impression of the sacrifices that a truly benevolent monarch might make of behalf of his people. Frank is an important author whose books were among the first burned by the Nazis.
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