Day of the Iguana Hank and Frankie watch the movie together. Day of the Iguana Day of the Iguana is the third book in the Hank Zipzer series by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. It was first published in 2003 by Grosset & Dunlap. The title is a reference to "The Night of the Iguana", a play by Tennessee Williams. Hank and his two best friends, Frankie and Ashley, perform magic tricks at Hank's 3-year-old cousin's birthday party. Performing at the party means that Frankie will have to miss "The Mutant Moth that Ate Toledo," a movie he has been looking forward to, but
The Night of the Iguana (film) the area's fishing so much that he bought a $30,000 house "in a cottage colony eight miles outside town." By March 1964, months before the film's release, gossip about the film's production was widespread. Huston received an Writers Guild of America award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years." At the award dinner, Allan Sherman performed a song, to the tune of "Streets of Laredo", with lyrics that included, "They were down there to film "The Night of the Iguana" / With a star-studded cast and a technical crew. / They did things at night midst