Huston and Truman Capote's parody film "Beat the Devil"  was loosely based on whom that was born in 1904?
Claud Cockburn
Beat the Devil (film)
Beat the Devil is a 1953 adventure comedy film.
 The film was directed by John Huston, and starred Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones and Gina Lollobrigida, and featured Robert Morley, Peter Lorre and Bernard Lee.
 Huston and Truman Capote wrote the screenplay, loosely based upon a novel of the same name by British journalist Claud Cockburn, writing under the pseudonym James Helvick.
 Huston made the film as a parody of a genre of film.
 Although often described as a parody of "The Maltese Falcon", which Huston directed and in which Bogart and Lorre appeared, this is not the case.
 Capote said "John [Huston] and I decided to kid the story, to treat it as a parody.
 Instead of another "Maltese Falcon", we turned it into a ... [spoof] on this type of film."
Claud Cockburn
Francis Claud Cockburn ( ; 12 April 1904 – 15 December 1981) was an Anglo-Scots journalist.
 His saying "believe nothing until it has been officially denied" is widely quoted in journalistic studies, although he did not claim credit for originating it.
 He was the second cousin, once removed, of novelists Alec Waugh and Evelyn Waugh.
 He lived at Brook Lodge, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland.
Dallas John Baker
Dallas John Baker (born Dallas John Angguish Baker on 19 February 1968) is an Australian writer and academic noted for poetry, short stories and travel writing whose work deals with themes of alienation, otherness and sexuality.
 He is also known as Dallas Angguish, the name he used as a performance poet beginning in the 1980s.
 He has been repeatedly compared to Truman Capote and to David Sedaris.
 Angguish, who is openly gay, has also written plays and screenplays some of which have been produced.
 He is known for a lyrical style that foregrounds feeling and the use of powerful descriptive passages.
 Due to his evocative short stories, he has been variously described as Truman Capote's literary heir and as reminiscent of Carson McCullers, the much lauded Southern Gothic writer.
 His prose poetry has appeared in the journals Text, Lodestar Quarterly, Retort Magazine and Polari journal.
 His short stories have appeared in the book anthologies ""Dumped"", ""Bend, Don't Shatter"",""Sensual Travels"" and others.
 His collection of memoir and travel writing ""Anywhere But Here"", released in February 2006, received very strong reviews.
 In particular Graeme Aitken of Australian gay magazine DNA wrote: Beat the Devil (novel)
The novel was published in the United Kingdom by Boardman and in the United States by J. B. Lippincott & Co. The publishers paid Cockburn an advance of between £200-300 and $750, respectively.
 "Beat the Devil" was made into a 1953 film by director John Huston, who paid Cockburn £3,000 for the rights to the book and screenplay.
 Cockburn collaborated with Huston on the early drafts of the script, but the credit went to Truman Capote. Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism
The Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism is awarded for literary criticism by the University of Iowa on behalf of the Truman Capote Literary Trust.
 The value of the award is $30,000 (USD), and is said to be the largest annual cash prize for literary criticism in the English language.
 The formal name of the prize is the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, commemorating both Capote and his friend Newton Arvin, who was a distinguished critic and Smith College professor until he lost his job in 1960 after his homosexuality was publicly exposed. Trilogy (film)
Trilogy (also released as Truman Capote's Trilogy) is a 1969 American anthology drama film directed by Frank Perry and written by Truman Capote.
 It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France. Infamous (film)
Infamous is a 2006 American drama film based on the 1997 book by George Plimpton "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career".
 It covers the period from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, during which Truman Capote researched and wrote his bestseller "In Cold Blood". Capote (film)
Capote is a 2005 biographical film about Truman Capote, following the events during the writing of Capote's non-fiction book "In Cold Blood".
 Philip Seymour Hoffman won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the title character.
 The film was based on Gerald Clarke's biography "Capote" and was directed by Bennett Miller.
 It was filmed mostly in Manitoba in the autumn of 2004.
 It was released September 30, 2005, to coincide with Truman Capote's birthday. A Christmas Memory
"A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote.
 Originally published in "Mademoiselle" magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in "The Selected Writings of Truman Capote" in 1963.
 It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since. Truman Capote Literary Trust
The Truman Capote Literary Trust is an American charitable trust established in 1994 by Truman Capote's literary executor, Alan U. Schwartz, pursuant to Capote's will.