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Niven Busch (* 26. April 1903 in New York City , New York ; † 25. August 1991 in San Francisco , California ) one was American writer - and Roman author and university professor , who once for an Oscar nomination for best original story was.

Life

Busch completed his studies at Princeton University after attending school and then worked as a writer and article writer for the news magazine Time and the magazine The New Yorker . His career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood , he began in 1931 after a contract with Warner Bros. had closed. His first produced screenplay was made in 1932 for The Cry of the Mass (The Crowd Roars) by Howard Hawks with James Cagney , Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak .

After leaving Warner Bros. Busch worked as a freelance writer between 1934 and 1938. It was during this time that he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Story at the 1938 Academy Awards for Henry King's 1937 action film In Old Chicago, starring Tyrone Power , Alice Faye and Don Ameche .

After he was again under contract as a writer at Warner Bros. between 1938 and 1939, he worked again as a freelance writer between 1939 and 1952. During this time, his most famous novel, Duel in the Sun , was written in 1944 . After the film producer David O. Selznick had acquired the film rights to the novel in 1946 by was King Vidor with Jennifer Jones , Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as Duel in the Sun (Duel in the Sun) filmed .

Other films made after his novels were, for example, Till the End of Time (1946) by Edward Dmytryk with Dorothy McGuire , Robert Mitchum and Guy Madison based on his novel They Dream of Home , The Capture (1950) by John Sturges with Lew Ayres , Teresa Wright and Victor Jory based on his novel of the same name as well as The Farm of the Taken (The Furies, 1950) by Anthony Mann with the leading actors Barbara Stanwyck , Wendell Corey and Walter Huston based on his novel The Furies .

In 1952 Busch left the Hollywood film business and later worked as a lecturer at the University of California . He also wrote several other novels, some of which were set in his Californian homeland. In 1988, at the age of 84, he played the supporting role of an old man in the Philip Kaufman- directed film The Unbearable Lightness of Being (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) alongside Daniel Day-Lewis , Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin .

Busch was married four times, including between 1942 and 1952 to actress and Oscar winner Teresa Wright. This marriage resulted in two children. His grandson is film producer Jonah Smith , who was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Picture in 2002 for Waking Life (2001) .

Busch died of complications from heart failure .

Publications

  • Twenty-one Americans: being profiles of some people famous in our time , 1930
  • The Carrington incident , 1941
  • Duel in the sun , 1944
  • They dream of home , 1944
  • … Day of the conquerors: a novel , 1946
  • The furies , 1948
  • The hate merchant: a novel , 1953
  • The actor , 1955
  • California Street: A Novel , 1959
  • The San Franciscans: a novel , 1962
  • The gentleman from California: a novel , 1965
  • The takeover: a novel , 1973
  • No Place for a Hero , 1980
  • Continent's edge , 1980
  • The titan game , 1989

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SURNAME Bush, Niven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1991
Place of death San Francisco , California