Jo Eisinger
Joseph " Jo " Eisinger ( born July 24, 1909 in New York City; † January 1991 in London) was an American screenwriter.
Life
The son of a Viennese immigrant grew up in Brooklyn, New York and began working as a newspaper reporter at the age of 14 years. Soon after, he managed to change to the stage, which he as a playwright on Broadway moderate success with songs like A Point of Honor ( 1937) and What Big Ears! Achieved (1942 ). He also wrote novels, such as The Walls Came Tumbling Down that were filmed later. From 1942 he worked as a freelance writer for various film studios, such as 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios and Warner Brothers, active in Hollywood. Five times he collaborated with director Terence Young, who is best known for his James Bond movies. At their joint film productions include the star-studded thriller Poppy Is Also a Flower ( The Poppy Is Also a Flower, 1966 ) and the Adventure I 'm from the end of the world ( L' avventuriero, 1967) with Anthony Quinn and Rita Hayworth. For the script an episode of U.S. television series Philip Marlowe (1983 ) Eisinger won the 1984 Edgar Allan Poe Award. He then went into retirement.
His first wife was Lorain Beaumont. His marriage to his second wife, Wilhelmina, which ended in 1949 in divorce, two children were born. Eisinger died in 1991 in Westminster, London.