Harold Robbins was an American author of popular novels.
16 Facts About Harold Robbins
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Harold Robbins's parents were well-educated Jewish emigrants from the Russian Empire, his father from Odessa and his mother from Neshwies, south of Minsk.
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Harold Robbins dropped out of high school in the late 1920s to work in a variety of jobs, including errand boy, bookies' runner, and inventory clerk in a grocers.
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Harold Robbins was employed by Universal Pictures from 1940 to 1957, starting off as a clerk and rising to an executive.
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Harold Robbins created the ABC television series The Survivors, starring Ralph Bellamy and Lana Turner.
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Harold Robbins' editors included Cynthia White and Michael Korda and his literary agent was Paul Gitlin.
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In July 1989, Harold Robbins was involved in a literary controversy when the trade periodical Publishers Weekly revealed that around four pages from Harold Robbins' novel The Pirate had been lifted without permission and integrated into Kathy Acker's novel The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, which had recently been re-published in the UK in a selection of early works by Acker titled Young Lust.
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Harold Robbins was the playboy of his day and a master of publicity.
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Harold Robbins was a renowned novelist but tales of his own life contain even more fiction than his books.
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Robbins is mentioned by name in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home by Admiral James T Kirk; his first officer Spock mentions that Robbins was one of the 20th century "giants" of literature.
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Harold Robbins is mentioned by name by Basil Fawlty in the Fawlty Towers episode "Waldorf Salad"; he refers to Harold Robbins' work as "transatlantic tripe".
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Harold Robbins was married three times, first to his high school sweetheart, Lillian Machnivitz.
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Harold Robbins spent a great deal of time on the French Riviera and at Monte Carlo until his death from respiratory heart failure, at the age of 81 in Palm Springs, California.
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Harold Robbins's cremated remains are interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Cathedral City.
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Harold Robbins has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6743 Hollywood Boulevard.
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Works bearing Harold Robbins name has appeared after his death.