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Borden Chase (January 11, 1900 – March 8, 1971) was an American writer. Career. Early jobs. Born Devin Borden, he left school at fourteen went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York City's Holland Tunnel, where he worked with union leader Norman Redwood.
Borden Chase. Writer: Red River. Prior to his career as a writer, Chase was employed as chauffeur for notorious prohibition-era gangster Frankie Yale -- until Yale was 'rubbed out' by Al Capone's mob in July 1928.
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- January 11, 1900
- Borden Chase
- March 9, 1971
Borden Chase. Writer: Red River. Prior to his career as a writer, Chase was employed as chauffeur for notorious prohibition-era gangster Frankie Yale -- until Yale was 'rubbed out' by Al Capone's mob in July 1928.
- January 11, 1900
- March 9, 1971
Mar 1, 2017 · Motion Picture Screenwriter, Author. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 1948 Howard Hawks-directed western motion picture Red River, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
Born Frank Fowler in Brooklyn , New York, Borden Chase served in the Navy during World War I and put in time as a shipyard worker, carnival high diver, driver for gangster Frankie Yale, and sandhog on the New York's Holland Tunnel before turning to writing.
Borden Chase was born Frank Fowler in 1900. In his early writing career, he wrote short stories that were published in Argosy, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, and many pulp magazines. He then began to write screenplays for both motion pictures and television.
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Borden Chase pursued a successful screenwriting career from the mid-1930s into the 1970s by creating tough heroes who faced danger and death in the uncivilized days of the American West.
