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In 1938, Dorothy Baker borrowed the titles of her friend Otis Ferguson's two articles and published the novel Young Man with a Horn.

Her story of the doomed trumpet player Rick Martin was inspired, she wrote, by " the music, but not the life " of Beiderbecke, but the image of Martin quickly became the image of Beiderbecke: His story is about " the gap between the man's musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life.

" In 1950, Michael Curtiz directed the film Young Man with a Horn, starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

In this version, in which Hoagy Carmichael also plays a role, the Rick Martin character lives.