The Elephant is White

The Elephant is White

First US edition
Author	Caryl Brahms S.J. Simon
Language	English
Genre	Comedy
Publisher	Michael Joseph (UK) Farrar & Rinehart (US)
Publication date	1939
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Elephant is White is a 1939 comedy novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon, a regular writing team between 1937 and 1950. In prewar Paris an idle Englishman runs into a group of eccentric Russian exiles in a nightclub.

Film adaptation

In 1944 it was adapted into the film Give Us the Moon directed by Val Guest and starring Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver and Roland Culver. ^[1] The film updated the plot into a future postwar era.

References

1. Goble p.429

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.