Borden Chase

Borden Chase (actually Frank Fowler, born January 11, 1900 in New York, NY; † 8 March 1971 in California ) was an American screenwriter.

Life

When Frank Fowler Born To Chase punched through with a variety of odd jobs before he devoted himself to writing. For example, he was a driver for the New York gangster Frankie Yale and worked as a tunnel worker in the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel with. Early in his writing career, he wrote short stories and novellas.

In 1935, the film studio 20th Century Fox produced the film Under Pressure after the novel by Borden Chase Sandhog. These recorded his experiences from the time when he was busy in the Holland Tunnel. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Hollywood and changed his name to Borden Chase. The inspiration for this name came on the one hand by the American Milk Producers ' Borden Milk Products, " on the other hand by the Chase Manhattan Bank.

In 1942, Chase provided the story for Anthony Mann's first film, Dr. Broadway, but it was the screenplays for films like Winchester '73 's following or Bend of the river gave him the breakthrough. For Howard Hawks ' Red River in 1949, he received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

Chase was an active member of the founded in 1944, the anti-communist Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a coalition of filmmakers, whose activities, among others, on the indictment of the Hollywood Ten led.