Gene Fowler biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Gene Fowler

Author Name:

Gene Fowler

Born As:

Eugene Devlan

Other Names:

Born:

08 Mar 1890

Died:

02 Jul 1960




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Selected Works:

Books:

Timber Line - 1933 - A history of the Denver Post
Good Night, Sweet Prince - 1944; a biography of actor John Barrymore
Minutes of the Last Meeting - 1954; a memoir of Sadakichi Hartmann with vists from WC Fields, John Barrymore and John Decker
A Solo in Tom Toms - 1946 New York - an autobiography.

Screenplays:

Fowler wrote or co-wrote screenplays for the following movies - partial list.
What Price Hollywood? - 1932
State's Attorney - 1932
The Way to Love - 1933
The Mighty Barnum - 1934 - based on his stage play
Twentieth Century - 1934
The Call of the Wild - 1935
Professional Soldier - 1934
Career Woman - 1936 - story
Half Angel - 1936
A Message to Garcia - 1936
White Fang- 1936
Ali Baba Goes to Town - 1937 - story
Love Under Fire - 1937
Nancy Steele Is Missing! - 1937
The Earl of Chicago - 1940 - story
Billy the Kid - 1941
Big Jack - 1949

Other of his works that became the basis for films include his stage play The Great Magoo, which was filmed as Shoot the Works - 1934, and the book, Beau James: The Life & Times of Jimmy Walker, which was the basis for Beau James - 1957.                          
Wife Agnes Hubbard, three children, the eldest of whom was Gene Fowler Jr. - 1917-1998, a prominent Holywood film editor - whose work included It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Hang 'Em High and a sometime director - 1959's, I Was a Teenage Werewolf as well as numerous television programs.