Search results
Niven Busch (April 26, 1903 – August 25, 1991) was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed The Postman Always Rings Twice. His novels included Duel in the Sun (1944) and California Street (1959). He was married to actress Teresa Wright for ten years beginning in 1942.
Aug 27, 1991 · Niven Busch, a screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel "Duel in the Sun," which David O. Selznick made into a classic western film in 1947, died at his home on Sunday. He was...
Niven Busch. Writer: In Old Chicago. American novelist and screenwriter Niven Busch was born in New York City in 1903. In the early '20s he began writing for "Time" magazine.
- Writer, Actor, Producer
- April 26, 1903
- Niven Busch
- August 25, 1991
Novelist and screenwriter, educated at Princeton University. Began as a writer for "Time" and "The New Yorker" magazines. In Hollywood from 1931, at Warner Brothers (1931-34; 1938-39), subsequently freelance for other studios.
- April 26, 1903
- August 25, 1991
Aug 25, 1991 · Novelist, screenwriter and producer, Niven Busch, was, as David Shipman says, "associated with some interesting films at the time when movies were movies". Busch was born in Manhattan on April 26,1903, and died in San Francisco August 25, 1991.
- (40)
- August 25, 1991
- April 26, 1903
Aug 27, 1991 · Niven Busch, the novelist and scenarist who continued his prodigious output well into his old age, died Sunday in San Francisco. Author of “Duel in the Sun,” “California Street” and...
(1903-1991) US screenwriter and author, active in Hollywood from the early 1930s and best known as a writer for the effectively erotized, soon-filmed Western Duel in the Sun ( 1944 ); he is of sf interest for The Titan Game ( 1989 ), a Technothriller set in the very Near Future; the tale's protagonist, unwilling inheritor of his father's Weapons...
