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Fleischman's book was adapted in the 1994 Disney Channel television film Prince Brat and the Whipping Boy starring Truan Munro, Nic Knight, George C. Scott, Vincent Schiavelli, Mathilda May, and Kevin Conway, [1] and directed by Sydney MacArtney. Sid Fleischman wrote the teleplay and the film won a CableACE Award that year. [1]
Fay Baker (born Fay Schwager; January 31, 1917 – December 8, 1987) was an American stage, film and television actress and writer.Using the pen name Beth Holmes she wrote the novel The Whipping Boy.
A whipping boy was a boy educated alongside a prince (or boy monarch) in early modern Europe, who supposedly received corporal punishment for the prince's transgressions in his presence. The prince was not punished himself because his royal status exceeded that of his tutor; seeing a friend punished would provide an equivalent motivation not to ...
Call Me By My Rightful Name is a 1961 American play by Michael Shurtleff which is based on the novel The Whipping Boy by S.F. Pfoutz. [1] Synopsis
Later works looked farther afield, from England (The Whipping Boy) to Asia (The White Elephant) to Mexico (The Dream Stealer). Finding nonfiction to his liking after completing his autobiography, The Abracadabra Kid: A Writer's Life (1996), Fleischman went on to produce biographies of Harry Houdini , Mark Twain , and Charlie Chaplin .
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Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (/ ˈ m ɒ n s ə r æ t / [1] 22 March 1910 – 8 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–1945), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.
Whipping Boy (American band), a hardcore punk band active 1982–1989; Whipping Boy (Irish band), a rock music band active 1988–1998 and occasionally since 2005; Whipping Boy, 2000 album from the Irish band Whipping Boy; The Whipping Boy, a 1986 children's book by Sid Fleischman, winner of the Newbery Medal