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Harold Robbins, the Glossary

Harold Robbins (May 21, 1916 – October 14, 1997) was an American author of popular novels.^[1]

89 relations: A Stone for Danny Fisher, Admiral, Aeronautics, American Broadcasting Company, Appropriation (art), Basil Fawlty, Bill Lear, Bloomsbury Publishing, Bookmaker, Bricolage, Brooklyn, California, Cannabis (drug), Cathedral City, California, Cinema of the United States, Colombia, Combined oral contraceptive pill, Educating Rita (film), Elvis Presley, Encyclopedia.com, Fawlty Towers, Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), French Riviera, Gas-s-s-s, Ghostwriter, Goodbye, Janette, Google Books, Harold Robbins' The Survivors, Harry Cohn, Hodder & Stoughton, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Howard Hughes, Internet Archive, J. K. Rowling, Jacqueline Susann, James T. Kirk, Joseph E. Levine, Junius Podrug, Kathy Acker, King Creole, Kuusankoski, Lana Turner, Life (magazine), List of best-selling fiction authors, Louis B. Mayer, Michael Caine, Michael Korda, Minsk, Monte Carlo, Nevada Smith, ... Expand index (39 more) »
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A Stone for Danny Fisher

A Stone For Danny Fisher is a serious early novel by Harold Robbins that looks at the effect of the Great Depression on a lower-middle class Jewish family.

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Admiral

Admiral is one of the highest ranks in some navies.

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Aeronautics

Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight-capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere.

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Appropriation (art)

In art, appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

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Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese.

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Bill Lear

William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Bookmaker

A bookmaker, bookie, or turf accountant is an organization or a person that accepts and pays out bets on sporting and other events at agreed-upon odds.

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Bricolage

In the arts, bricolage (French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects") is the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work constructed using mixed media.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Cathedral City, California

Cathedral City, colloquially known as "Cat City", is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Combined oral contraceptive pill

The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.

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Educating Rita (film)

Educating Rita is a 1983 British comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert with a screenplay by Willy Russell based on his 1980 stage play.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.

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Encyclopedia.com

Encyclopedia.com is an online encyclopedia.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.

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Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)

Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), renamed from Palm Springs Mortuary & Mausoleum in 2005, is a mausoleum in Cathedral City, California near Palm Springs.

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French Riviera

The French Riviera, known in French as the i (Còsta d'Azur), is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France.

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Gas-s-s-s

Gas-s-s-s (on-screen title: Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.) is a 1970 post-apocalyptic black comedy film produced and released by American International Pictures.

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Ghostwriter

A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author.

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Goodbye, Janette

Goodbye, Janette is a 1981 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, and his 16th novel.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Harold Robbins' The Survivors

The Survivors is an American primetime soap opera aired by the ABC television network as part of its fall 1969 lineup.

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Harry Cohn

Harry Cohn (July 23, 1891 – February 27, 1958) was a co-founder, president, and production director of Columbia Pictures Corporation.

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Hodder & Stoughton

Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.

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Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist and pilot.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), known by her pen name, is a British author and philanthropist.

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Jacqueline Susann

Jacqueline Susann (August 20, 1918 – September 21, 1974) was an American novelist and actress. Harold Robbins and Jacqueline Susann are Jewish American novelists.

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James T. Kirk

James Tiberius Kirk, commonly known as Captain Kirk, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

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Joseph E. Levine

Joseph Edward Levine (September 9, 1905 – July 31, 1987) was an American film distributor, financier, and producer.

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Junius Podrug

Junius Podrug (born 1947) is an American author and lawyer.

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Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. Harold Robbins and Kathy Acker are Jewish American novelists.

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King Creole

King Creole is a 1958 American musical drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on the 1952 novel A Stone for Danny Fisher by Harold Robbins.

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Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a neighbourhood of city of Kouvola, former industrial town and municipality of Finland, located in the region of Kymenlaakso in the province of Southern Finland.

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Lana Turner

Julia Jean "Lana" Turner (February 8, 1921June 29, 1995) was an American actress.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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This is a list of best-selling fiction authors to date, in any language.

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Louis B. Mayer

Louis Burt Mayer (born Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884Mayer maintained that he was born in Minsk on July 4, 1885. According to Scott Eyman, the reasons may have been.

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Michael Caine

Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is a retired English actor.

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Michael Korda

Michael Korda (born 8 October 1933) is an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers.

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Monte Carlo

Monte Carlo (Monte-Carlo,; or colloquially Monte-Carl,; Munte Carlu) is an official administrative area of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located.

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Nevada Smith

Nevada Smith is a 1966 American Western film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy and Suzanne Pleshette.

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Never Love a Stranger

Never Love a Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film based on Harold Robbins' 1948 debut novel of the same name, starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray, and featuring Steve McQueen.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nyasvizh

Nyasvizh or Nesvizh (Niasviž,; Несвиж; Nesvyžius; Nieśwież; ניעסוויז; Nesvisium) is a town in Minsk Region, Belarus.

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Odesa

Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.

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Palm Springs, California

Palm Springs (Cahuilla: Séc-he) is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Valley.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the representation of another person's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work.

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Playboy

Playboy (stylized in all caps) is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine, formerly in print and currently online.

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is a term used to refer to a variety of artistic, cultural, and philosophical movements that claim to mark a break with modernism.

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Publishers Weekly

Publishers Weekly (PW) is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents.

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Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)

"Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" is a song by the band Squeeze.

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Ralph Bellamy

Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 – November 29, 1991) was an American actor whose career spanned 65 years on stage, film, and television.

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Roger Corman

Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor. Harold Robbins and Roger Corman are Jewish American military personnel.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Semiotext(e)

Semiotext(e) is an independent publisher of critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, activist texts and non-fiction.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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South America

South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Spock

Spock is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

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Squeeze (band)

Squeeze are an English rock band that came to prominence in the United Kingdom during the new wave period of the late 1970s, and continued recording in the 1980s, 1990s and 2010s.

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film, the fourth installment in the Star Trek film franchise based on the television series Star Trek.

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Stiletto (1969 film)

Stiletto is a 1969 American crime film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and starring Alex Cord, Britt Ekland and Patrick O'Neal.

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The Adventurers (1970 film)

The Adventurers is a 1970 American epic adventure drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Lewis Gilbert.

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The Betsy

The Betsy is a 1978 American romantic drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, from a screenplay by William Bast and Walter Bernstein, based on the 1971 novel of the same title by Harold Robbins.

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The Carpetbaggers

The Carpetbaggers is a 1961 bestselling novel by Harold Robbins, which was adapted into a 1964 film of the same title.

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The Carpetbaggers (film)

The Carpetbaggers is a 1964 American drama film directed by Edward Dmytryk, based on the best-selling 1961 novel The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins and starring George Peppard as Jonas Cord, a character based loosely on Howard Hughes, and Alan Ladd in his last role as Nevada Smith, a former Western gunslinger turned actor.

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The Dream Merchants (novel)

The Dream Merchants is an American novel written by Harold Robbins and published in 1949.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The Lonely Lady

The Lonely Lady is a 1983 American drama film directed by Peter Sasdy, adapted from Harold Robbins' 1976 novel of the same name, believed to have been based on Robbins' memories of Jacqueline Susann.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Pirate (1978 film)

The Pirate is a 1978 American two-part, four-hour television miniseries directed by Ken Annakin.

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Tycoon (novel)

Tycoon (sometimes subtitled Tycoon: A Novel), published in 1997, is the 23rd novel by Harold Robbins.

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Universal Pictures

Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film production and distribution company that is a division of Universal Studios, which is owned by NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Robbins

Also known as 79 Park Avenue (novel), Harold J. Robbins, Robbins, Harold.

, Never Love a Stranger, New York (state), New York City, Nyasvizh, Odesa, Palm Springs, California, Plagiarism, Playboy, Postmodernism, Publishers Weekly, Pulling Mussels (from the Shell), Ralph Bellamy, Roger Corman, Russian Empire, Semiotext(e), Sound film, South America, Spock, Squeeze (band), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Stiletto (1969 film), The Adventurers (1970 film), The Betsy, The Carpetbaggers, The Carpetbaggers (film), The Dream Merchants (novel), The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, The Lonely Lady, The New York Times, The Pirate (1978 film), Tycoon (novel), Universal Pictures, Valley of the Dolls (novel), Variety (magazine), Where Love Has Gone (film), Where Love Has Gone (novel), William S. Burroughs, 79 Park Avenue.

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