Tristram Tupper

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Tristram Tupper (born September 11, 1886 in Caroline County (Virginia) , † December 30, 1954 in Arlington or Miles ) was an American author.

Life

Tristram Tupper was a son of Reverend Henry Allen Tupper and his wife Marie Pender Tupper. He had two older sisters, Allene and Katherine , who were second married to George C. Marshall . In 1912 he graduated from New York Law School. He took part in both the First and Second World Wars . After the First World War he lived temporarily on the estate of Ida M. Tarbell , an aunt of his first wife. There he wrote the first text, which he put in a magazine.

Especially in the interwar period he worked as an author; he has written film scenarios for Fox , Republic and Universal Pictures , among others ; he also wrote books and short stories . Many of his texts first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post , including Three Epidodes in the Life of Timothy Osborn in the April 9, 1927 issue. On this text, which was republished in 1929 by Grosset & Dunlap, the film Lucky Star by was based 1929. The River from 1928, also filmed by Frank Borzage , was first published in the Saturday Evening Post . The First Kiss , filmed by Paramount in 1928 , was based on his story Four Brothers .

After the Second World War, Tupper founded the company Tupper and Love in Atlanta together with Albert Love.

Tupper was married twice. His first marriage to Clara Tarbell Tupper resulted in the children Tristram junior and Caroline. His second marriage was to Marion Ferrill Tupper. Tupper was buried in Arlington National Cemetery .

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ida Minerva Tarbell: All in the Day's Work. University of Illinois Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-252-07136-2 , p. 359 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  2. ↑ a b Hervé Dumont: Frank Borzage. McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-476-61331-4 , p. 372 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ^ Copyright Office, Library of Congress: Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series. Copyright Office, Library of Congress, 1929, p. 1550 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  4. ^ Roy Kinnard: The Films of Fay Wray. McFarland, 2015, ISBN 978-1-476-60415-2 , p. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  5. ↑ The name of the friend and business partner can be found e.g. B. on law.justitia.com , because after Tupper's death a legal dispute over his life insurance was fought , in the course of which his medical history was recapitulated.
  6. ↑ Short biography at www.findagrave.com , based on a message in The Evening Star dated December 31, 1954
  7. ↑ Tristram Tupper on www.arlingtoncemetery.net
personal data
SURNAME Tupper, Tristram
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tupper, Tristan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Caroline County (Virginia)
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1954
Place of death Miles (Virginia) or Arlington (Virginia)