Jo Eisinger

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Joseph "Jo" Eisinger (born July 24, 1909 in New York City , † January 1991 in London ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

The son of a Viennese immigrant grew Eisinger in the New York district of Brooklyn and began working as a newspaper reporter at the age of 14 years. Soon afterwards he succeeded in switching to the stage, whereupon he had moderate success as a playwright on Broadway with plays such as A Point of Honor (1937) and What Big Ears! (1942) could achieve. He also wrote novels such as The Walls Came Tumbling Down , which were later made into films. From 1942 he worked as a freelance screenwriter for various film studios such as 20th Century Fox , Columbia Pictures , Universal Studios and Warner Brothers in Hollywood . He worked five times with director Terence Young , best known for his James Bond films. Their joint film productions include the star-studded crime film Poppy is Also a Flower (1966) and the adventure film I Come from the End of the World (1967) with Anthony Quinn and Rita Hayworth . Eisinger won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1984 for the screenplay of an episode of the US television series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1983) . He then retired.

His first wife was Lorain Beaumont. His marriage to his second wife Wilhelmina, which ended in divorce in 1949 , resulted in two children. Eisinger died in Westminster , London in 1991 .

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SURNAME Eisinger, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eisinger, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 1991
Place of death London