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Producers Develop Movies Inspired By HOW TO SUCCEED WITH WOMEN Book

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With the 50th Anniversary Production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" based on the satirical self-help book written by Shepherd Mead having just opened last Sunday on Broadway starring Daniel Radcliffe, Producer Grant Turck has teamed up with Producers Alan Gasmer and Peter Jaysen to develop motion picture comedies based on such other seminal titles from Mead's satirical "How to" book series as How to Succeed with Women Without Really Trying, How to Get Rich in TV Without Really Trying and How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying.

Eying Women first the producing trio are currently in talks with writers and plan to meet with studios next month. Gasmer, Jaysen and Turck will produce through their respective shingles, Alan Gasmer & Friends, Team Jaysen and Grant Turck Productions. Turck who also manages the Mead Estate, brought the books to Gasmer and Jaysen.

Published in 1957 by Ballantine Books How To Succeed With Women Without Really Trying is an ageless primer on how men can meet and woo women. Guised as a self-help book for men, Women apes the structure and tone of Mead's popular 1952 work How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with chapters that include "How to be Irresistible in Short Pants," "How to Select the First Wife" and "How to Handle Women in Business."

 

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