Niven Busch
Niven Busch ( born April 26, 1903 in New York City, New York, † August 25 1991 in San Francisco, California ) was an American screenwriter and novelist and university teacher who nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story had.
Life
Busch completed post-school studies at Princeton University and was then employed as a writer and article writer at Time magazine and in the magazine The New Yorker. His career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood, he began in 1931, after he had a contract with Warner Bros. closed. His first produced screenplay was 1932 Cry of the ground ( The Crowd Roars ) by Howard Hawks starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak.
After leaving Warner Bros. Busch worked as a freelance writer 1934-1938. During this time he was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1938 for the Academy Award for best original story, and indeed for the action film In Old Chicago ( 1937) by Henry King with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye and Don Ameche in leading roles.
After he was again 1938-1939 as a writer at Warner Bros. contract, he worked 1939-1952 again as a freelance author. During this time 1944 came with Duel in the Sun his most famous novel. After the film producer David O. Selznick had acquired the film rights to the novel in 1946 by King Vidor with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten and Gregory Peck as Duel in the Sun ( Duel in the Sun ) was filmed.
Other films made by his novels, for example, were Till the End of Time ( 1946) by Edward Dmytryk with Dorothy McGuire, Robert Mitchum and Guy Madison to his novel They Dream of Home, The Capture ( 1950) by John Sturges Lew Ayres, Teresa Wright and Victor Jory after his novel as well as the farm possessed ( the Furies, 1950) by Anthony Mann with the main actors Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey and Walter Huston for his novel the Furies.
1952 Busch left the movie business in Hollywood and later worked as a lecturer at the University of California. He also wrote several other novels, some of which played in his California home. In 1988, he played as a 84 -year-old the supporting role of an old man in the film version directed by Philip Kaufman The Unbearable Lightness of Being ( The Unbearable Lightness of Being ) on the side of Daniel Day -Lewis, Juliette Binoche and Lena Olin.
Busch was married four times, including. 1942-1952 with the actress and Academy Award winner Teresa Wright From this marriage two children were born. His grandson is the film producer Jonah Smith, who in 2002 was for Waking Life (2001) nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.
Busch died of heart failure.
Publications
- Twenty-one Americans: being profiles of some famous people in our time, 1930
- The Carrington incident, 1941
- Duel in the sun, 1944
- They dream of home, 1944
- ... Day of the conquerors: a novel 1946
- The furies, 1948
- The hate merchant: a novel 1953
- The actor, 1955
- California Street: A Novel, 1959
- The San Franciscans: a novel 1962
- The gentleman from California: a novel 1965
- The takeover: a novel 1973
- No Place for a Hero, 1980
- Continent 's edge, 1980
- The titan game, 1989
Filmography (selection)
Background literature
- Patrick McGilligan: Backstory, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986