Children of the Ritz

by Cornell Woolrich, Dorothy Mackall, John Francis Dillon, author

$50,000 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

Los Angeles: First National Pictures, 1929. Two vintage photographs from the 1929 film. Based on the 1927 novel by Cornell Woolrich, one of six Fitzgerald-esque novels written by the author before he turned to a life of crime writing . A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur, but their situation is partially reversed when her family loses all their money and he wins 50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts

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