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Lillian Day

January 01, 1970

Lillian Day Lederer or Lillian Ethel Abrams (June 27, 1893 – March 29, 1991) was an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and biographer.[1][2] Some of her work was produced on Broadway and adapted to film. She married and collaborated with mystery writer Lyon Mearson.

Early life edit

Lillian Ethel Abrams was born on June 27, 1893, in Manhattan, New York City.[2][1] She was the daughter of Amelia M. Fendler-Abrams and Alexander Abrams, both prominent physicians in New York City the 1890s.[1] Her parents separated in 1907 and had a scandalous divorce case in March 1912, with eighteen-year-old Lillian testifying on her mother's behalf.[3][4][5] Fendler-Abrams testified that her husband was consistently under the influence of alcohol.[3] Despite Dr. Alexander Abrams' claims of his wife's infidelity, he was unsuccessful in obtaining a divorce from Fender-Abrams.[6]

Career edit

She began her career writing for magazines in the 1920s under Lillian Day.[1][7] Her work appeared in the The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post.[8][9] She continued to use her first husband's surname, Day, as her pen name, despite a divorce and two additional marriages.[7]

Day wrote the novel Kiss and Tell in 1931.[1] In 1932, she published the novel Our Wife from a collaboration with her second husband, Lyon Mearson.[1] She later created a play based on the novel that was produced on Broadway in the Booth Theatre on Broadway in March 1933.[10][11] The play was made into the 1941 film Our Wife by Columbia Pictures.[12][13]

She co-wrote the screenplay for Wayward, a film released by Paramount in 1932.[14] She collaborated with her third husband, Norbert Lederer, to write the mysteries Murder in Time in 1933 and Death Comes on Friday in 1937.[1][7] The Chicago Tribune noted that the latter was "a smartly turned mystery with an intreging cast of characters, swift action, and a dénouement that is startling but completely logical and fair to the reader.'[15]

Day's short story, "Living up to Lizzie", was adapted into the film Personal Maid's Secret, released by Warner Bros. Pictures in 1935.[16][8] The Youngest Profession, a novel she wrote in 1938, was made into a play, A Woman of Fifteen, in 1943 and a film, The Youngest Profession, in 1943.[17][18] She also co-wrote the play, Collector's Item, which ran on Broadway in the Booth Theatre on in February 1952.[1][19]

Day also wrote several biographies. Her book on violinist Niccolò Paganini was published in 1929.[20] The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, "Until this gossipy, but informing biography by Miss Day appeared his profile to posterity was a caricature." In 1946, she wrote a biography for children about composer and Edvard Grieg.[21][9] In 1957, she published Ninon, a Courtesan of Quality about Ninon de l'Enclos.[22][23]

Personal life edit

She married three times.[1] Her first husband was Mr. Day, giving her the surname she used as an author. Her second husband was playwright and author Lyon Mearson, noted as "a master of mystery stories".[1][24] The couple married in 1928 and divorced in early 1934. However, Walter Winchell reported that they had been seen together in October 1934, and implied a rekindling of the relationship.[25] She announced her engagement to Dr. Norbert Lewis Lederer in December 1934 and married him around 1946.[26] He was a chemical engineer, former attache to Scotland Yard, and author on crime, tropical fish and chess.[27][28][29]

In 1950, Day moved to France with Lederer.[1] He died in Paris in November 1955.[27] She lived in Paris and Neuilly-sur-Seine for thirty years.[1]

Day lived in the DeWitt Nursing Home in Manhattan for eight years.[1] She died there of heart failure on March 29, 1991 at the age of 98.[1]

Selected publications edit

Novels edit

  • Kiss and Tell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.,1931.[2][30]
  • Our Wife. with Lyon Mearson. New York: 1932.[1]
  • Murder in Time. with Norbert Lederer/ Green Circle Books, 1933.[1][2]
  • Death Comes on Friday. with Norbert Lederer. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1937.[1]
  • The Youngest Profession. Garden City, 1940.[18]
  • Domestic Symphony. London: Temple Press, 1947.[31]

Biographies edit

  • Paganini of Genoa. New York: Macauley Co., 1929.[32][20]
  • Edgar Degas. by Camille Mauclair. Adapted by Lillian Day. New York: Hyperion Press, 1945.[33]
  • Ninon, a Courtesan of Quality. New York: Doubleday, 1957.[22][23]

Children's books edit

  • Andersen's Fairy Tales. Adapted by Lillian Day. New York: Hyperion Press and Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946.[2]
  • Grieg. New York: Hyperion Press, 1946.[21][9]

Plays edit

  • Our Wife with Lyon Mearson (1933)[10][13][11]
  • Collector's Item with Alfred Golden (1952)[19]

Films edit

Short stories edit

  • "Living up to Lizzie," The Saturday Evening Post, December 8, 1934.[8]

Adaptations of her work edit

Plays edit

  • Chadwick, Alice (aka Wilbur Braun). A Woman of Fifteen: A Brisk Comedy of Youth in Three Acts (Samuel French, 1943). Based on Day's novel, The Youngest Profession.[35]

Films edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Lillian Day Lederer, a Novelist, Dies at 98". The New York Times. 1991-03-30. p. 1.24. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Lillian Day | Author". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  3. ^ a b "New Ananias Club Begun Twixt Sobs by Mrs. Abrams". The Evening World. New York, New York. 1912-03-06. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Mr. Wasserman Vindicated: Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty in Divorce Case". The Evening World. New York, New York. 1912-03-12. p. 7. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Mr. Wasserman Vindicated, Evidence Clears Him of Connection with Dr. Abram's Matrimonial Unhappiness". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 1912-03-13. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Abrams Divorce Set Aside". The Sun. New York, New York. 1913-07-26. p. 2. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ a b c "Lillian Day Lederer". The Kingston Whig-Standard. Kingston, Ontario, Canada. 1991-04-03. p. 36. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ a b c d "Personal Maid's Secret". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  9. ^ a b c Cooper, Agness (1946-09-15). "Childhood of Grieg". The News and Observer. p. 33. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ a b "Our Wife". Playbill. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  11. ^ a b "'Our Wife,' or the Writing Man's Romance". Daily News. New York, New York. 1933-03-04. p. 20. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ a b "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3. Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures. New Series". 1941.
  13. ^ a b c "Our Wife". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  14. ^ a b "Wayward". Letterboxd. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  15. ^ "This Mystery Yarn is Smartly Turned". Chicago Tribune. 1937-03-13. p. 21. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ a b "Personal Maid's Secret". Letterboxd. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  17. ^ a b Troyan, Michael (12 September 2010). A Rose for MRS. Miniver: The Life of Greer Garson. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813128429.
  18. ^ a b c "The Youngest Profession". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  19. ^ a b "Collector's Item". Playbill. Retrieved November 10, 2023.
  20. ^ a b "Paganini of Genoa, and Cyrano de Bergerac, the Fantastic Gascon". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 1929-12-28. p. 17. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. ^ a b Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series: Pamphlets, serials, and contributions to periodicals. Part 1B. Copyright Office, the Library of Congress. 1946. p. 163 – via Google Books.
  22. ^ a b Weiner, Margery (1958-07-11). "A Fascinating Courtesan". The Daily Telegraph. London, England. p. 13. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  23. ^ a b "Ninon". The Berkeley Gazette. Berkeley, California. 1958-01-15. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. ^ "Thriller Hits New Note". The Morning Call. Paterson, New Jersey. 1925-03-14. p. 16. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  25. ^ "Walter Winchell on Broadway". Capitol Hill Beacon. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1934-10-26. p. 9. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ "The Lyon Mearsons". Courier-Post. Camden, New Jersey. 1933-12-11. p. 10. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ a b "Norbert L. Lederer". The News Journal. Wilmington, Delaware. 1955-11-26. p. 15. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ "Dr. Norbert Lewis Lederer". The Cincinnati Enquirer. 1955-11-26. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ "Scotland Yard Reads Fiction in Search of Excitement". The Daily Item. Port Chester, New York. 1937-04-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ ""Kiss And Tell" 1931 DAY, Lillian". The Cary Collection. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  31. ^ Chadwicke, Alice (1949). Domestic Symphony. A ... Comedy ... in Three Acts. Based on Lillian Day's Novel of the Same Name.
  32. ^ Bemis, Marion Holden (1930-03-09). "Paganini of Genoa, Violn Wizard-His Triumps, Amorous and Musical". Detroit Free Press. Detroit, Michigan. p. 60. Retrieved 2023-11-10 – via Newspapers.com.
  33. ^ Degas, Edward (1945). Edgar Degas ... Adapted by Lillian Day [from "Degas," a Series of Reproductions, with Introductory Essays by C. Mauclair]. London.
  34. ^ "Wayward". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 2023-11-10.
  35. ^ Chadwicke, Alice (1943). A Woman of Fifteen. A ... Comedy ... in Three Acts. Based on Lillian Day's Novel, "The Youngest Profession.". New York.

January 01, 1970
lillian, lederer, lillian, ethel, abrams, june, 1893, march, 1991, american, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, biographer, some, work, produced, broadway, adapted, film, married, collaborated, with, mystery, writer, lyon, mearson, contents, early, life, care. Lillian Day Lederer or Lillian Ethel Abrams June 27 1893 March 29 1991 was an American novelist playwright screenwriter and biographer 1 2 Some of her work was produced on Broadway and adapted to film She married and collaborated with mystery writer Lyon Mearson Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Selected publications 4 1 Novels 4 2 Biographies 4 3 Children s books 4 4 Plays 4 5 Films 4 6 Short stories 4 7 Adaptations of her work 4 7 1 Plays 4 7 2 Films 5 ReferencesEarly life editLillian Ethel Abrams was born on June 27 1893 in Manhattan New York City 2 1 She was the daughter of Amelia M Fendler Abrams and Alexander Abrams both prominent physicians in New York City the 1890s 1 Her parents separated in 1907 and had a scandalous divorce case in March 1912 with eighteen year old Lillian testifying on her mother s behalf 3 4 5 Fendler Abrams testified that her husband was consistently under the influence of alcohol 3 Despite Dr Alexander Abrams claims of his wife s infidelity he was unsuccessful in obtaining a divorce from Fender Abrams 6 Career editShe began her career writing for magazines in the 1920s under Lillian Day 1 7 Her work appeared in the The New Yorker and The Saturday Evening Post 8 9 She continued to use her first husband s surname Day as her pen name despite a divorce and two additional marriages 7 Day wrote the novel Kiss and Tell in 1931 1 In 1932 she published the novel Our Wife from a collaboration with her second husband Lyon Mearson 1 She later created a play based on the novel that was produced on Broadway in the Booth Theatre on Broadway in March 1933 10 11 The play was made into the 1941 film Our Wife by Columbia Pictures 12 13 She co wrote the screenplay for Wayward a film released by Paramount in 1932 14 She collaborated with her third husband Norbert Lederer to write the mysteries Murder in Time in 1933 and Death Comes on Friday in 1937 1 7 The Chicago Tribune noted that the latter was a smartly turned mystery with an intreging cast of characters swift action and a denouement that is startling but completely logical and fair to the reader 15 Day s short story Living up to Lizzie was adapted into the film Personal Maid s Secret released by Warner Bros Pictures in 1935 16 8 The Youngest Profession a novel she wrote in 1938 was made into a play A Woman of Fifteen in 1943 and a film The Youngest Profession in 1943 17 18 She also co wrote the play Collector s Item which ran on Broadway in the Booth Theatre on in February 1952 1 19 Day also wrote several biographies Her book on violinist Niccolo Paganini was published in 1929 20 The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote Until this gossipy but informing biography by Miss Day appeared his profile to posterity was a caricature In 1946 she wrote a biography for children about composer and Edvard Grieg 21 9 In 1957 she published Ninon a Courtesan of Quality about Ninon de l Enclos 22 23 Personal life editShe married three times 1 Her first husband was Mr Day giving her the surname she used as an author Her second husband was playwright and author Lyon Mearson noted as a master of mystery stories 1 24 The couple married in 1928 and divorced in early 1934 However Walter Winchell reported that they had been seen together in October 1934 and implied a rekindling of the relationship 25 She announced her engagement to Dr Norbert Lewis Lederer in December 1934 and married him around 1946 26 He was a chemical engineer former attache to Scotland Yard and author on crime tropical fish and chess 27 28 29 In 1950 Day moved to France with Lederer 1 He died in Paris in November 1955 27 She lived in Paris and Neuilly sur Seine for thirty years 1 Day lived in the DeWitt Nursing Home in Manhattan for eight years 1 She died there of heart failure on March 29 1991 at the age of 98 1 Selected publications editNovels edit Kiss and Tell New York Farrar amp Rinehart Inc 1931 2 30 Our Wife with Lyon Mearson New York 1932 1 Murder in Time with Norbert Lederer Green Circle Books 1933 1 2 Death Comes on Friday with Norbert Lederer New York E P Dutton and Co 1937 1 The Youngest Profession Garden City 1940 18 Domestic Symphony London Temple Press 1947 31 Biographies edit Paganini of Genoa New York Macauley Co 1929 32 20 Edgar Degas by Camille Mauclair Adapted by Lillian Day New York Hyperion Press 1945 33 Ninon a Courtesan of Quality New York Doubleday 1957 22 23 Children s books edit Andersen s Fairy Tales Adapted by Lillian Day New York Hyperion Press and Duell Sloan and Pearce 1946 2 Grieg New York Hyperion Press 1946 21 9 Plays edit Our Wife with Lyon Mearson 1933 10 13 11 Collector s Item with Alfred Golden 1952 19 Films edit Wayward 1932 with Gladys Unger 14 34 Short stories edit Living up to Lizzie The Saturday Evening Post December 8 1934 8 Adaptations of her work edit Plays edit Chadwick Alice aka Wilbur Braun A Woman of Fifteen A Brisk Comedy of Youth in Three Acts Samuel French 1943 Based on Day s novel The Youngest Profession 35 Films edit Wayward 1932 co wrote screenplay Personal Maid s Secret based on Living up to Lizzie 1935 16 8 Our Wife 1941 12 13 The Youngest Profession 1943 17 18 References edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Lillian Day Lederer a Novelist Dies at 98 The New York Times 1991 03 30 p 1 24 ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b c d e Lillian Day Author LibraryThing com Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b New Ananias Club Begun Twixt Sobs by Mrs Abrams The Evening World New York New York 1912 03 06 p 1 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Mr Wasserman Vindicated Jury Returns Verdict of Not Guilty in Divorce Case The Evening World New York New York 1912 03 12 p 7 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Mr Wasserman Vindicated Evidence Clears Him of Connection with Dr Abram s Matrimonial Unhappiness The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 1912 03 13 p 3 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Abrams Divorce Set Aside The Sun New York New York 1913 07 26 p 2 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b c Lillian Day Lederer The Kingston Whig Standard Kingston Ontario Canada 1991 04 03 p 36 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b c d Personal Maid s Secret Turner Classic Movies Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b c Cooper Agness 1946 09 15 Childhood of Grieg The News and Observer p 33 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b Our Wife Playbill Retrieved November 10 2023 a b Our Wife or the Writing Man s Romance Daily News New York New York 1933 03 04 p 20 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b Catalog of Copyright Entries Part 1 C Group 3 Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures New Series 1941 a b c Our Wife Turner Classic Movies Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b Wayward Letterboxd Retrieved November 10 2023 This Mystery Yarn is Smartly Turned Chicago Tribune 1937 03 13 p 21 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b Personal Maid s Secret Letterboxd Retrieved November 10 2023 a b Troyan Michael 12 September 2010 A Rose for MRS Miniver The Life of Greer Garson University Press of Kentucky ISBN 978 0813128429 a b c The Youngest Profession Turner Classic Movies Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b Collector s Item Playbill Retrieved November 10 2023 a b Paganini of Genoa and Cyrano de Bergerac the Fantastic Gascon The Philadelphia Inquirer 1929 12 28 p 17 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series Pamphlets serials and contributions to periodicals Part 1B Copyright Office the Library of Congress 1946 p 163 via Google Books a b Weiner Margery 1958 07 11 A Fascinating Courtesan The Daily Telegraph London England p 13 Retrieved 2023 11 10 a b Ninon The Berkeley Gazette Berkeley California 1958 01 15 p 15 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Thriller Hits New Note The Morning Call Paterson New Jersey 1925 03 14 p 16 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Walter Winchell on Broadway Capitol Hill Beacon Oklahoma City Oklahoma 1934 10 26 p 9 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com The Lyon Mearsons Courier Post Camden New Jersey 1933 12 11 p 10 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com a b Norbert L Lederer The News Journal Wilmington Delaware 1955 11 26 p 15 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Dr Norbert Lewis Lederer The Cincinnati Enquirer 1955 11 26 p 26 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Scotland Yard Reads Fiction in Search of Excitement The Daily Item Port Chester New York 1937 04 21 p 1 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Kiss And Tell 1931 DAY Lillian The Cary Collection Retrieved 2023 11 10 Chadwicke Alice 1949 Domestic Symphony A Comedy in Three Acts Based on Lillian Day s Novel of the Same Name Bemis Marion Holden 1930 03 09 Paganini of Genoa Violn Wizard His Triumps Amorous and Musical Detroit Free Press Detroit Michigan p 60 Retrieved 2023 11 10 via Newspapers com Degas Edward 1945 Edgar Degas Adapted by Lillian Day from Degas a Series of Reproductions with Introductory Essays by C Mauclair London Wayward Turner Classic Movies Retrieved 2023 11 10 Chadwicke Alice 1943 A Woman of Fifteen A Comedy in Three Acts Based on Lillian 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