The Elephant is White
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Author | Caryl Brahms S.J. Simon |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Comedy |
Publisher | Michael Joseph (UK) Farrar & Rinehart (US) |
Publication date | 1939 |
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The Elephant is White is a 1939 comedy novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, a regular writing team between 1937 and 1950. In prewar Paris an idle Englishman runs into a group of eccentric Russian exiles in a nightclub.
Film adaptation[]
In 1944 it was adapted into the film Give Us the Moon directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Roland Culver.[1] The film updated the plot into a future postwar era.
References[]
- ^ Goble p.429
Bibliography[]
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
Categories:
- 1939 British novels
- Novels set in Paris
- British novels adapted into films
- British comedy novels
- Michael Joseph books
- 1930s novel stubs