The Duplicity of Hargraves film by Broadway Star Features Co. in 1917 and directed by Thomas R. Mills. The cast was: The Duplicity of Hargraves "The Duplicity of Hargraves" is a short story by the American writer William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name: O. Henry. The story was featured in "The Junior Munsey", February 1902, and republished in the volume "Sixes and Sevens" (1911). Sixty-eight-year-old Major Pendleton Talbot and his practical spinster daughter Lydia move to Washington D.C. The Talbots have fallen from their aristocratic past in the South before the American Civil War and are now quite poor. The pair
William F. Brown (writer) William F. Brown (writer) William Ferdinand Brown (born April 16, 1928 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American playwright best known for writing the book of the musical, "The Wiz" (1974), an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" with music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls, for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. His other works include "The Girl in the Freudian Slip" (1967) based on his 1959 novel, which played on Broadway for three days in May after a tour; "How to Steal an Election" (1968),