Thursday, February 25, 2016

PaperBack



James M. Cain, The Butterfly, Signet, 1955

7 comments:

Dan_Luft said...

I have the one with Pia Zadora on the cover.

Deb said...

Darn! Dan keeps beating me to the comments. Who among us can forget Pia Zadora's nuanced performance in the film adaptation?

Unknown said...

And the old prunes at the so-called Academy denied her an Oscar nomination.

Deb said...

But she got her own back--winning an Oscar in "The Lonely Lady".

Unknown said...

Yeah, right. It was the garden hose scene that did it.

James Reasoner said...

Am I the only one who actually *likes* the movie based on this book? Or at least I did when I watched it 30 years ago. I haven't seen it since.

Unknown said...

I watched it for the hot Pia scenes. That's all I remember about it.