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Of Human Bondage is a 1946 American drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Paul Henreid, Eleanor Parker and Alexis Smith. [1] The second screen adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham 's 1915 novel, this Warner Bros. sanitized version was written by Catherine Turney.
My Reputation is a 1946 American romantic drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt. Barbara Stanwyck portrays an upper-class widow whose romance with an army officer causes trouble for her gossiping friends, domineering mother and young sons. Catherine Turney wrote the script, an adaptation of Clare Jaynes ' 1942 novel Instruct My Sorrows.
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Turney and her parents, George W. and Elizabeth Blamer Turney, moved from Chicago to Rome, New York, where she spent most her of her childhood. In 1921, they moved to Pasadena, California. In the summer of 1926, Turney started working at the Pasadena Playhouse's School of Theatre, where she helped Gilmore Brown prepare for the premiere of Eugene O'...
In the 1930s, she had early success in theater with her plays Bitter Harvest (1936), performed in London, and due to the work's positive reviews and thinking she was English and not American, she was offered a job from MGM. She then worked on the film The Bride Wore Red (1937) which was an adaptation of Ferenc Molnár's unproduced play, The Girl fro...
She was one of the first women writers to become a contract worker at Warner Brothers, where she worked from 1943 to 1948. When asked about why she was hired, Turney stated that due to men being at war, women could be given more opportunities. With this opportunity, Turney wrote characters for big female film stars that were known to be strong and ...
Turney was married and divorced twice. Her first marriage was to actor Cyril E. Armbrister (1896–1966) from 1931 to 1938 and Clifford Guthrie "George" Reynolds from February 18, 1940, to 1949. She was in a long-term relationship with California artist Lenard Kester, but they never married.
Turney wrote for television from the late 1950s to the early 1960s for shows including: Maverick, General Hospital, Alcoa Presents, and The Wonderful World of Disney'. In the later 1950s, she focused on writing biographies, historical romance novels and television soap operas. The Other One, her first novel published in 1952, was adapted into a fil...
May 26, 2024 · Under the direction of Charles Marquis Warren, this cinematic adaptation of Catherine Turney’s novel The Other One – adapted for the screen by Turney – does move along at a decent pace and evokes memories of past ghostly chillers like The Uninvited (1944) and Rebecca (1940).
Catherine Turney. Writer: No Man of Her Own. Catherine Turney was born on 26 December 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for No Man of Her Own (1950), The Man I Love (1946) and My Reputation (1946).
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE, screen play by Catherine Turney, adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham; directed by Edmund Goulding; produced by Henry Blanke for Warner Brothers.
Sep 15, 1998 · Turney's adaptation of Philip Barry's play The Animal Kingdom, starring Ann Sheridan and entitled One More Tomorrow (1946), was substantially altered for the screen.
