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Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 – September 22, 1966) was an American magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. Pauline Kael once wrote that Furthman "has written about half of the most entertaining movies to come out of Hollywood (Ben Hecht wrote most of the other half.)"
Furthman became one of the most prolific, and well-known, screenwriters of his time, and was responsible for the screenplays of some of Hollywood's most highly regarded films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), To Have and Have Not (1944) and Nightmare Alley (1947).
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- Chicago, Illinois, USA
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- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Furthman became one of the most prolific, and well-known, screenwriters of his time, and was responsible for the screenplays of some of Hollywood's most highly regarded films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), To Have and Have Not (1944) and Nightmare Alley (1947).
- March 5, 1888
- September 22, 1966
Furthman became one of the most prolific, and well-known, screenwriters of his time, and was responsible for the screenplays of some of Hollywood's most highly regarded films, such as Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), To Have and Have Not (1944) and Nightmare Alley (1947).
Nightmare Alley is a 1947 American film noir directed by Edmund Goulding from a screenplay by Jules Furthman. Based on William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the same name, it stars Tyrone Power, with Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, and Helen Walker in supporting roles.
Jules Furthman. writing film stories for American, Fox, and Paramount studios (used the pseudonym Stephen Fox, 1918–20); 1920–23—under contract to Fox, and later to Paramount, 1926–32, and MGM, 1932–39; then freelance writer; 1960—retired. Died: Of a stroke in Oxford, England, 22 September 1966.
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Aug 23, 2016 · Each scene follows logically from another, but each one is so alive with hilarious, terse, sexy, absurd dialogue by William Faulkner (William Faulkner!) and Hawks regulars Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman that you don’t notice the shagginess of the rug that’s shifting beneath you.
