** The novel The Godfather ( novel ) by Mario Puzo is published.

Director Fred Zinneman commented that "... the legend about a horse's head having been cut off is pure invention, a poetic license on the part of Mario Puzo who wrote The Godfather.

The Godfather is a crime novel written by Italian American author Mario Puzo, originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Although it is widely reported that Puzo was inspired to use " Godfather " as a designator for a Mafia leader from his experience as a reporter, the term The Godfather was first used in connection with the Mafia during Joe Valachi's testimony during a 1963 United States congressional hearing on organized crime.

Mario Puzo is the one of two writers whose work has been adapted resulting in two separate wins in this category.

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime epic that Francis Ford Coppola produced, directed, and co-wrote with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, and Robert De Niro.

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The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American crime film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola.

Furthermore, one line, when Vautrin tells Eugène that he is " making him an offer that he cannot refuse ", was used by Mario Puzo in The Godfather.

He learns from Clemenza about the legendary exploits of the novel's main character, Salvatore Guiliano ( based on Salvatore Giuliano, but Puzo changed his name ), and is eager to meet him, but Guiliano is murdered before the meeting can take place.

The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather.

* The Fourth K by Mario Puzo ( 1990 ), features Congress trying to remove President Francis Xavier Kennedy ( a fictional nephew of John F. Kennedy ) from office, using the 25th Amendment, claiming that he is mentally unfit to serve, following the assassination of his daughter.

What follows in Vincent's story, according to author Mario Puzo and director Francis Ford Coppola, is not exactly known.

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As in Puzo ’ s The Godfather, the lovemaking, the opulent festivities, the sub rosa plotting, and the complex double-dealing are interspersed with outbursts of violence, including one memorable scene in which the reformist priest Girolamo Savonarola is torn apart on the Rack.

Constanzia " Connie " Corleone ( previously Constanzia Corleone-Rizzi ), is a fictional character from The Godfather by Mario Puzo.

The Fourth K is a novel by Mario Puzo, published in 1990.

The Fortunate Pilgrim is a 1965 novel by Mario Puzo.

Fools Die is a 1978 novel by Mario Puzo.

The Sicilian is a novel by Italian-American author Mario Puzo.

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In 2012, a prequel, based on an unproduced screenplay by Mario Puzo, titled The Family Corleone was written by Ed Falco.

Mario Puzo wrote novels based on the principles of Omertà and the Cosa Nostra.

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Jones made her professional acting debut in The Last Don, a 1997 mini-series based on the novel by Mario Puzo.

As noted by Santopietro, " what Puzo delivered-brilliantly-was nothing less than a disquisition on the madness, glory, and failure of the American dream.

Lang scored a major coup when he was able to sign on screenwriter Mario Puzo to pen the first draft during the summer of 1972.

However, on The Godfather Part IIIs DVD commentary, Coppola explains that both he and Puzo had envisioned a fourth part to the saga, one storyline of which would deal with Vincent's reign as head of the Corleone family.

Puzo spent over twenty years working on the book off and on, while he wrote others.

Carlo — whom Puzo characterizes as " a punk sore at the world " — periodically abuses and cheats on Connie.

Winegardner uses all of the characters from the Puzo novels, and created a few of his own, most notably Nick Geraci, a Corleone soldier who plays a pivotal role in the sequel novels.

Coppola stated that The Godfather Part IV was never made as Mario Puzo died before they had a chance to write the film.

On March 13, 2012 Bert Fields, attorney for the estate of Mario Puzo filed a counterclaim against Paramount Pictures, who sued the estate to stop the author ’ s son, Anthony Puzo, from publishing a new sequel to his father ’ s classic Mafia saga, " The Godfather.

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* The Godfather ( novel ), a 1969 novel by Mario Puzo about the fictional Italian Mafia family headed by Don Vito Corleone

Puzo, fresh from the success of his novel and film, The Godfather, delivered the draft script in August.

# The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The family was created by Mario Puzo and appears in his 1969 novel The Godfather.