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Jun 7, 2015 · Jun 7, 2015. On June 7, 1904, New York’s Yiddish-language theater world was shocked by a bizarre attempted murder-suicide, perpetrated by one of its leading lights. The shooter, and sole fatality, was Moishe “Morris” Finkel, a veteran actor, director and producer.
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Abem Finkel. Writer: Sergeant York. Abem Finkel was born on 6 December 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. Abem was a writer, known for Sergeant York (1941), Jezebel (1938) and God Is My Co-Pilot (1945). Abem was married to Ruth. Abem died on 10 March 1948 in San Diego, California, USA.
- Writer
- December 6, 1889
- Abem Finkel
- March 10, 1948
- Internal Censorship
- Public Reception
- Bibliography
- Footnotes
- Endnotes
To craft a story acceptable to the studio, censors and himself, Muni enlisted the help of his wife’s brother, Abem Finkel, a screenwriter at Warner Brothers. Finkel’s “treatment” of Jan Volkanik, which “toned down the objectionable capital versus labor elements,” was submitted as a proposal to the reading department at Warner Brothers.xxxiii Muni i...
When Black Furybegan showing in April and May of 1935, it sparked widespread commentary across the country. Apart from the unanimously lauded artistic performance of Muni, the response varied from gushing praise to outright censure. The clashing responses to the film’s treatment of labor content reflected a nation in upheaval. The Great Depression ...
“A Word with Paul Muni”. New York Times (New York, NY), January 27, 1935. Black Fury. Directed by Michael Curtiz. United States: First National Pictures, 1935. “Black Fury: Dynamic Film”. Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1935. Paul Muni Papers. *T-Mss 1967-005. Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Black, Gregory D...
1This scene is a referral to the 1929 Barkoski murder by three CIP of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. 2 Muni made all the contract negotiations. He submitted the manuscript to the studio, arranged for the purchase of rights to the play Bohunk, which along with Jan Volkanikprovided material for the screenplay, and negotiated the contract for writers’ c...
i William H. Young and Nancy K. Young, The 1930s (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2002), xvii. ii Michael Adams, “Film”, in The Thirties in America, ed. Thomas Tandy Lewis, vol. 1 (Pasadena, CA.: Salem Press, 2011), 321. iii Gregory D. Black, “Hollywood censored: The production code administration and the Hollywood film industry, 1930-1940”, Film H...
The film was based on York's diary, as edited by Tom Skeyhill, and adapted by Harry Chandlee, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Howard E. Koch, and Sam Cowan (uncredited). York refused, several times, to authorize a film version of his life story, but finally yielded to persistent efforts to finance the creation of an interdenominational Bible school.
Abem Finkel is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Adaptation, and Story. Some of their work includes Sergeant York, Jezebel, Marked Woman, Black Legion, Black Fury, The Big Shot, Tonight and Every Night, and Special Agent.
Writer Abem Finkel, who helped with the story, would move into A films faster than Reagan. Later that year he would get the chance to write White Banners for Claude Rains and Fay Bainter and Jezebel for Bette Davis.
Mar 31, 2006 · Abem Finkel Jr., 63, of Cape Coral, died Monday, March 27, 2006. Abe was born in Glendale, California on June 27, 1942 to Abem Finkel, Sr., an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and Margaret...
