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(12-28-2022 06:23 PM)AussieMick Wrote:  "Stern finished the 4,100 word short story in 1943 after working on it since November 1939. Unable to find a publisher, he sent the 200 copies he had printed as a 21-page booklet to friends as Christmas presents in December 1943."

Just found this. "Stern’s Hollywood agent, one of the lucky recipients, asked Stern if she could “offer the story to the movies.” Stern thought that was a crazy idea, but he agreed. By March of 1944 the story's movie rights were sold for $10K. RKO Radio Pictures planned to turn the story into a movie for actor Cary Grant.

https://blogs.loc.gov/catbird/2018/12/fr...rful-life/