Harry Kurnitz
Harry Kurnitz (born January 5, 1908 in New York , † March 18, 1968 in Hollywood , Los Angeles ) was an American journalist and writer.
Life
Kurnitz spent his youth in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . There he completed his schooling and studied at the University . After graduating, he found employment with the Philadelphia Record as a literary and music critic.
During this time Kurnitz began - under the pseudonym Marco Page - Mystery - and detective stories to write. In 1938 he went to Hollywood, where he quickly became a sought-after screenwriter. At the same time, he regularly published very successful crime novels.
Harry Kurnitz died of a heart attack ten weeks after his 59th birthday on March 18, 1968 and found his final resting place in Beth Olam Cemetery (Garden of Shalom, Section 16, Row K, Grave 22) in Hollywood.
Honors
- 1966: Nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for the screenplay of How to Steal a Million?
Works (selection)
- Scripts
- 1940: Darling, You Have Changed (I Love You Again) - Director: WS Van Dyke
- 1945: What Next, Corporal Hargrove? together with Marion Hargrove
- 1948: Venus makes infidelities (One Touch of Venus)
- 1955: Land of the Pharaos - Director: Howard Hawks
- 1957: Witness for the Prosecution (Witness for the prosecution) - Director: Billy Wilder (after the play by Agatha Christie )
- 1961: Hatari! - Directed by Howard Hawks
- 1959: That Old Feeling (Once More, With Feeling!) - Director: Stanley Donen
- 1966: How do you steal a million? (How to steal a million) - Director: William Wyler
- 1953: Dangerous Vacation (The Man Between) - Director: Carol Reed (based on the novel of the same name by Walter Ebert )
- Plays
- Art is art. Comedy in three acts (“Reclining figure”). Bloch, Berlin 1955.
- Da capo. Conductor comedy ("Once more, with feeling"). Bloch, Berlin 1960.
- A shot in the dark. A new comedy . Random House, New York 1961.
- The girl who came to supper . Levin Books, New York 1963 (with Noël Coward ).
- Detective novels
- Teletype from Hollywood. Detective novel ("Invasion of privacy"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
- Book friends among themselves. Detective novel ("Fast Company"). Goldmann, Munich 1962.
- The perfect fake. Detective novel ("Reclining figure"). Goldmann, Munich 1963.
literature
- Harry Kurnitz, Playwright, Dies (obituary). In: The New York Times, March 20, 1968, p. 47.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Agatha Christie: Witness for the Prosecution ( "Witness for prosecution"). New edition Fischer-Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt / M. 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-17462-1 .
- ^ Walter Ebert: Dangerous Vacation. Detective novel . Amsel-Verlag, Berlin 1953 (Amsel crime novel: 10)
- ↑ Dramatization of his eponymous crime novel.
- ↑ freely based on the comedy The Sincere Liar ("L'idiote") by Marcel Achard .
- ↑ freely based on the piece The Sleeping Prince by Terence Rattigan
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kurnitz, Harry |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hollywood , Los Angeles |