HUSTON, John
Inscribed on half-title page
[160] pp.
Albert & Charles Boni
Illustrated by Covarrubias
1930
8 5/8″ x 6 1/2″
*front hinge cracking*
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The ill-fated lovers Frankie and Johnny were already legends by 1930, the year of this illustrated drama’s publication. The unique interpretation is a collaboration between John Huston, the future director of The Maltese Falcon and other film classics, and Miguel Covarrubias, an influential painter and caricaturist. Huston, who reputedly interviewed a neighbor of the real-life Frankie and Johnny, was inspired to adapt the tale of love gone wrong for a puppet show for which George Gershwin supplied musical accompaniment.
