• 20th Century Pictures producer Darryl F. Zanuck purchased the film rights to “De Luxe” during the pre-production buzz, but after the play flopped, the film idea was shelved.

  • Dr. Joseph Fahey (at the podium) and the cast of the staged reading of Louis Bromfield and John Gearon’s “De Luxe,” on stage in Founders Auditorium at OSU-Mansfield.

  • “De Luxe” was loosely based on the novella “Fourteen Years After,” which was part of Bromfield’s 1934 book “Here Today and Gone Tomorrow.”

  • Louis Bromfield’s co-writer was his secretary John Gearon, who later went on to write spy novels both under his own name and the pen name “John Flagg.” Gearon passed away in 1993. (Image source: Good Reads).

  • Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louis Bromfield took his crack at writing a play for Broadway in 1935, but it was not a success. A staged reading of the play at OSU-Mansfield last week gave the play, “De Luxe,” its first hearing since 1935.