New York years

Bibliography

• The Tents of Trouble (Poems; 1911)
• Rhymes of the Firing Line (1912)
• Guys and Dolls (1932)
• Damon Runyon's Blue Plate Special (1934)
• Money From Home (1935)
• More Than Somewhat (1937)
• Furthermore (1938)
• Take It Easy (1938)
• My Wife Ethel (1939)
• My Old Man (1939)
• The Best of Runyon (1940)
• A Slight Case of Murder (with Howard Lindsay, 1940)
• Damon Runyon Favorites (1942)
• Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker (with W. Kiernan, 1942)
• Runyon à la Carte (1944)

• The Damon Runyon Omnibus (1944)
• Short Takes (1946)
• In Our Town (1946)
• The Three Wise Guys and Other Stories (1946)
• Trials and Other Tribulations (1947)
• Poems for Men (1947)
• Runyon First and Last (1949)
• Runyon on Broadway (1950)
• More Guys and Dolls (1950)
• The Turps (1951)
• Damon Runyon from First to Last (1954)
• A Treasury of Damon Runyon (1958)
• The Bloodhounds of Broadway and Other Stories (1985)
• Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball (2005; Jim Reisler, editor)
• A Dangerous Guy Indeed (Unknown)

Films

• Lady for a Day (1933)—Adapted by Robert Riskin, who suggested the name change from Runyon's title "Madame La Gimp," the film garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra), Best Actress (May Robson), and Best Adaptation for the Screen (Riskin). It was remade as Pocketful of Miracles in 1961, with Bette Davis in the Apple Annie role; Frank Sinatra recorded the upbeat title song (his rendition is not used in the film). The film received Oscar nominations for composers Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and for co-star Peter Falk (Best Supporting Actor). In 1989, Jackie Chan adapted the story yet again for the Hong Kong action film Miracles, adding several of his trademark stunt sequences.
• Little Miss Marker (1934)—The film that made Shirley Temple a star, launched her career as perhaps America's most beloved child film star, and pushed her past Greta Garbo as the nation's biggest film draw of the year. Subsequent remakes include Sorrowful Jones (1949; Bob Hope, Lucille Ball), 40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); Tony Curtis), and Little Miss Marker (1980; Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Bob Newhart, Tony Curtis).
• The Lemon Drop Kid (1934); also filmed in 1951 starring Bob Hope and future I Love Lucy co-star William Frawley as a racetrack tout.
• A Slight Case of Murder (1938)— with Edward G. Robinson, remade in 1953 as Stop, You're Killing Me with Broderick Crawford and Claire Trevor.
• The Big Street (1942)— adapted from Runyon's story, "Little Pinks;" Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball
• Butch Minds the Baby (1942)— Broderick Crawford, Shemp Howard
• It Ain't Hay (1943)—adapted from "Princess O'Hara"; Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Patsy O'Connor

• Money from Home (1953)—Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
• Guys and Dolls (1955)—Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra

Radio

Television

• pineapple = pineapple grenade
• roscoe/john roscoe/the old equalizer/that thing = gun
• shiv = knife
• noggin = head
• snoot = nose

• ever-loving wife (occasionally "ever-loving doll")
• more than somewhat (or "no little, and quite some"); this phrase was so typical that is was used as the title of one of his short story collections
• loathe and despise
• one and all

• The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, established in his honor, was set up to fund promising scientists in the field of cancer research. The organization sponsors a 5K run at Yankee Stadium.
• Every year, the Denver Press Club hands out the Damon Runyon Award to a notable journalist. Past winners include Jimmy Breslin, Mike Royko, George Will and Bob Costas.
• History's first telethon was hosted by Milton Berle in 1949 to raise funds for the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation.
• The house in Manhattan, Kansas where Runyon was born is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
• Named in his honor, the Damon Runyon Stakes is a Thoroughbred horse race run every December at Aqueduct Race Track. Runyon loved horse racing and ran a small stable of his own.
• In the mid-1930s, Runyon persuaded promoter Leo Seltzer to formally change his Roller Derby spectacle from a marathon roller skating race into a full-contact team sport.
• One block of West 45th Street (between 8th and 9th Avenues) in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen is named Runyon's Way.
• In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon’s story “The Eternal Blonde” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

• Mosedale, John (1981). The Men Who Invented Broadway: Damon Runyon, Walter Winchell & Their World. New York: Richard Marek Publishers