A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Born:
June 25, 1909
Died:
July 26, 1993
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 – July 26, 1993) was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. Daniel Fuchs was born to a Jewish family on the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant. He wrote three early novels, published by the Vanguard Press — Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937). The earlier two of these depicted Jewish life in Williamsburg; the last focused on various ethnic types in Brighton Beach. A single-volume edition of these was published by Basic Books in 1965 under the title "Three Novels." Homage to Blenholt concerns a well-meaning tenement schlemiel who hopes to escape poverty via various inventions and get-rich quick schemes. Fuchs also wrote short stories and personal essays, mainly for The New Yorker. When he was 26, he moved to Los Angeles, California to work on films. Fuchs wrote the screenplay for the crime noir Criss Cross (1949). He also penned the psychodrama Panic in the Streets (1950), which was directed by Elia Kazan. In 1995, Criss Cross was remade as The Underneath by director Steven Soderbergh, with credit given to Fuchs. Love Me or Leave Me, a biopic about the torch singer Ruth Etting, which won Fuchs an Oscar for Best Story in 1955, featured a performance by James Cagney in the role of a Chicago hoodlum and Doris Day as the beleaguered songstress. Fuchs' short Hollywood novel, "West of the Rockies," was published in 1971, and in 1979 appeared a collection of mostly earlier-written short stories, "The Apathetic Bookie Joint." The Golden West: Hollywood Stories, a collection of Fuchs's fiction and essays about Hollywood, was published in 2005 by Black Sparrow Books. Fuchs died in Los Angeles.
Adaptation:
1950 Panic in the Streets
Additional Writing:
1950 Panic in the Streets
1958 Saddle the Wind
Novel:
1947 The Gangster
1950 Panic in the Streets
1958 Saddle the Wind
Screenplay:
1943 The Hard Way
1944 Between Two Worlds
1947 The Gangster
1948 Hollow Triumph
1949 Criss Cross
1950 Panic in the Streets
1953 Taxi
1955 Love Me or Leave Me
1957 Interlude
1957 Jeanne Eagels
1958 Saddle the Wind
1995 The Underneath
Sound:
1943 The Hard Way
1944 Between Two Worlds
1947 The Gangster
1948 Hollow Triumph
1949 Criss Cross
1950 Panic in the Streets
1953 Taxi
1955 Love Me or Leave Me
1957 Interlude
1957 Jeanne Eagels
1958 Saddle the Wind
1995 The Underneath
2023 Youth Topia
Story:
1939 The Day the Bookies Wept
1943 The Hard Way
1944 Between Two Worlds
1947 The Gangster
1948 Hollow Triumph
1949 Criss Cross
1950 Panic in the Streets
1953 Taxi
1955 Love Me or Leave Me
1957 Interlude
1957 Jeanne Eagels
1958 Saddle the Wind
1995 The Underneath
2023 Youth Topia
Writer:
1939 The Day the Bookies Wept
1942 The Big Shot
1943 Background to Danger
1943 The Hard Way
1944 Between Two Worlds
1947 The Gangster
1948 Hollow Triumph
1949 Criss Cross
1950 Panic in the Streets
1951 Storm Warning
1953 Taxi
1954 The Human Jungle
1955 Love Me or Leave Me
1957 Interlude
1957 Jeanne Eagels
1958 Saddle the Wind
1995 The Underneath
2023 Youth Topia
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