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Homer Croy (March 3, 1883 - May 24, 1965), was an American author and occasional screenwriter who wrote fiction and non-fiction books about life in the Midwestern United States. He also wrote several popular biographies, including books on outlaw Jesse James, humorist Will Rogers and film director D.W. Griffith. Croy was born on a farm northwest of Maryville, Missouri, and published his first book, ''When to Lock the Stable'', in 1914. During World War I he was production manager in Paris, France, for the Community Motion Picture Bureau, which distributed movies to Allied troops.〔Lee Shippey, ''Luckiest Man Alive,'' Los Angeles: Westernlore Press (1959), pages 65–66〕 His first successful book was ''West of the Water Tower'' published in 1923. It dealt with hypocrisy in a small town, "Junction City," which was a thinly disguised version of Maryville; a sequel, ''R.F.D. #3'', appeared the following year. Croy's most famous work was the novel ''They Had to See Paris'' (1926), about a rural couple from Missouri on a European trip. The book was filmed in 1929 as the first talking picture to star Will Rogers. Croy had a long but intermittent association with the motion picture industry. Many of his novels and stories were adapted for the screen, and he also directed a series of short travelogue films in 1914-1915; he received screenwriting credits on a handful of feature films in the 1930s. In addition to his biography of D.W. Griffith, he also wrote about the film industry in his 1918 book ''How Motion Pictures Are Made'' and a 1932 novel ''Headed for Hollywood''. In 2010 an edited selection of Croy's writing was collected with an introduction by Zachary Michael Jack entitled ''Homer Croy: Corn Country'' ((Ice Cube Press )). ==Selected bibliography== * 1914 ''When to Lock the Stable'' * 1918 ''How Motion Pictures Are Made'' * 1918 ''Boone Stop'' * 1920 ''Turkey Bowman'' * 1923 ''West of the Water Tower'' * 1924 ''R.F.D. No. 3'' * 1926 ''They Had to See Paris'' * 1929 ''Coney Island'' * 1932 ''Headed for Hollywood'' * 1942 ''Family Honeymoon'' * 1947 ''Corn Country'' * 1949 ''Jesse James Was My Neighbor'' * 1953 ''Our Will Rogers'' * 1959 ''Star Maker: The Story of D.W. Griffith'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homer Croy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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