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Maurice Zimring (June 19, 1909 – November 17, 2005), known as Maurice Zimm, was an American radio, television and film writer, whose most famous creation was the Creature from the Black Lagoon. The son of Jewish immigrants who settled in Iowa shortly after the turn of the century, Zimring moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s, and wrote for such ...
Zimring was born on December 2, 1942, in Los Angeles, California, to television and film writer Maurice Zimring, better known by his stage name Maurice Zimm, and his wife Molly, a lawyer who passed the California Bar in 1933.
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Nov 24, 2005 · Maurice Zimring, 96, who wrote the story for the 1954 cult classic film "Creature From the Black Lagoon," died of pneumonia Nov. 17 at his home in Westwood, said his son, UC Berkeley professor ...
Mar 19, 2018 · Maurice Zimm, who put the ‘create’ into the movie ‘creature’ Franklin Zimring quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, 2018. There is always a local angle, and “in this digital age,” writes UC Berkeley law school Professor Franklin Zimring, “a good idea can have a half-life of 60 years.”
Maurice Zimm: Murder is My Business Maurice Zimm wrote the story for Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) The man in the coroner's office glared at me. "What gave you the idea we freeze bodies?" he demanded. "That isn't exactly what I meant," I said hastily. "You see --." But it wasn't easy to explain. It never is!
Mar 19, 2018 · In the early ’50s, Universal offered Zimm a five-week contract for the invention of a new monster movie format. Previous “monsters” King Kong and Godzilla, for example, were based on size.
Apr 5, 2021 · Jack Arnold superbly directs this atmospheric story of an Amazon expedition in search of a prehistoric monster merman. But the clichéd script is the real missing link here. 7/10. Creature from the Black Lagoon. 1954, USA. Directed by Jack Arnold. Written by Arthur Ross, Harry Essex, Maurice Zimm, William Alland.
