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2 unusual facts about Jerome Weidman


Jerome Weidman

The book was the source for a 1951 movie starring Susan Hayward, but used mainly the title.

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He married Peggy Wright in 1942 and had two sons, John and Jeffrey.


Broken Lance

Shot in color and CinemaScope, the film is a remake of House of Strangers (1949) with the Phillip Yordan screenplay (based upon a novel by Jerome Weidman called I'll Never Go Home Any More), transplanted out west, featuring Tracy in the original Edward G. Robinson role, this time as a cowboy cattle baron rather than a Lower East Side Italian immigrant banker in New York City.


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