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Samuel Michael "Sam" Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) [1] was an American film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, actor, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936 ...
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- 1936–1994
Nov 17, 2002 · (He was also a jealous husband: when Charlie Chaplin offered Fuller's first wife, Martha Downes, a screen test, Fuller threatened, in Chaplin's presence, "to have her face changed" if she went ...
And bad memories of his first marriage combined with Christa’s participation in the writing probably explains why the material about Martha Downes is relatively attenuated. Perhaps the book’s most impressive achievement is its extended treatment of Fuller’s war experience in all its complexity.
Samuel Fuller. Writer: Shock Corridor. At age 17, Samuel Fuller was the youngest reporter ever to be in charge of the events section of the New York Journal. After having participated in the European battle theater in World War II, he directed some minor action productions for which he mostly wrote the scripts himself and which he also produced (e.g.
- August 12, 1912
- October 30, 1997
Feb 22, 2017 · On a personal note Samuel Michael Fuller was married twice. First to Martha Downes and then Christa Lang the mother of his daughter Samantha. Before Roger Corman and William Castle. Robert L. Lippert was the king of low budget productions. Lippert was familiar with Samuel Fuller's screenplays and offered him a job writing three for his company.
Bid on Martha Downes Fuller: Breakfast Bagel and Lox, Hollywood sold at auction by STAIR 186 on 8th March Gouache on paper, 1944, signed 'M. Downes' and dated lower right. 11 1/2 x 16 1/4 in. (sight), 16 1/4 x 20 3/4 in. (frame).
Sep 14, 2009 · At the same time, Fuller was going through a divorce from his then-wife Martha Downes, during which Fuller simply walked away from their failing relationship, leaving her the huge house they’d lived in and all his money, taking only his typewriter and a desk that once belonged to the famed American writer Mark Twain.
