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The Elephant is White

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The Elephant is White
First US edition
AuthorCaryl Brahms
S.J. Simon
LanguageEnglish
GenreComedy
PublisherMichael Joseph (UK)
Farrar & Rinehart (US)
Publication date
1939
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

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

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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

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  1. ^ Goble p.429

Bibliography

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  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.