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Profile of Daniel Fuchs
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Daniel Fuchs |
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25th June 1909 |
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Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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Daniel Fuchs (June 25, 1909 - July 26, 1993) was a successful writer and screenwriter. Fuchs was born in Brooklyn and moved to Los Angeles when he was twenty-six to work on films. In addition to films, Fuchs he also wrote fiction and personal essays, mainly for The New Yorker.
Fuchs wrote the script for the sexy crime noir Criss Cross (1949). He also penned the psychodrama Panic in the Streets (1950) which became an early success for director Elia Kazan. Later, Criss Cross was remade as The Underneath with credit given to Fuchs.
Love Me or Leave Me, a biopic about the torch singer Ruth Etting, won Fuchs an Oscar for original story in 1955, featured a performance by James Cagney in the role of a Chicago hoodlum. John Updike is quoted as saying "Nobody else writes like Daniel Fuchs. I think of him as a natural – a poet who never had to strain after a poetic effect, a magician who made magic look almost too easy." In 2005, collection of Daniel Fuchs's fiction and essays about Hollywood, The Golden West: Hollywood Stories was published.
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