Abem Finkel

Abem Finkel (born December 6, 1889 in New York City , † March 10, 1948 in San Diego , California ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Abem Finkel's parents were the theater people of Jewish descent Annetta Schwartz and Moishe († 1904, also called Morris) Finkel, who had emigrated to New York together from Romania in 1886 . Finkel attended the City College of New York and then worked as a stage manager at the theater. In 1931 he began his film career as a screenwriter with Columbia Pictures , but moved to Warner Brothers in 1934 . There he wrote scripts with other authors for films such as Murder in the Nightclub ( Marked Woman , 1937) and Jezebel - The Malicious Lady ( Jezebel , 1938), in each of which Bette Davis played the leading role. In 1942, along with Harry Chandlee , John Huston and Howard Koch, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Sergeant York, with Gary Cooper in the title role. In 1945 he worked again for Columbia Pictures for the Rita Hayworth film musical Tonight and Every Night .

Finkel's wife Ruth was the secretary of the actor Paul Muni , with whom Finkel was friends. Finkel died in San Diego in 1948 at the age of 58 and was buried in Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles .

↑ Faith Jones: Stage Killing: Solving an Attempted Murder . In: The Jewish Daily Forward , October 13, 2006.
↑ Jacob Adler, Lulla Rosenfeld: A Life on the Stage: A Memoir . Knopf, New York 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0 , p. 113.
^ Bob Herzberg: The Left Side of the Screen: Communist and Left-Wing Ideology in Hollywood, 1929-2009 . McFarland & Company, 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-4456-4 , p. 42.