Arnaud d'Usseau
Arnaud d'Usseau (April 18, 1916 – January 29, 1990) was a playwright and B-movie screenwriter who is perhaps best remembered today for his collaboration with Dorothy Parker on the play The Ladies of the Corridor.[1]
Career
In late 1950, his name appeared on the Hollywood blacklist as a Communist sympathizer. He was forced to appear before Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist Tydings Committee in 1953, but declined to answer any questions, declaring that he would be glad to discuss Communism with the Senator in a forum where the cards were not stacked against him. Afterwards, he moved to Europe and continued to write screenplays under various pseudonyms. Upon returning to the United States, he taught screenwriting at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. He died in 1990 at his home in New York, following surgery for stomach cancer.[2]
Selected filmography
- One Crowded Night (1940) dir. Irving Reis: Billie Seward, Gale Storm
- Lady Scarface (1941) dir. Frank Woodruff: Dennis O'Keefe, Frances Neal
- Repent at Leisure (1941) dir. Frank Woodruff: Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie
- The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942) dir. Herbert Leeds: Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver
- Who Is Hope Schuyler? (1942) dir. Thomas Loring: Joseph Allen, Jr., Mary Howard
- Just Off Broadway (1942) dir. Herbert Leeds: Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver
- Horror Express (1972) dir. Eugenio Martin: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas
- Psychomania (1973) dir. Don Sharp: Nicky Henson, George Sanders, Beryl Reid
References
- ↑ Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d’Usseau, The Ladies of the Corridor, Introduction by Marion Meade, Penguin Classics, 2008, ISBN 978-0-14-310531-2
- ↑ Obituary by C. Gerald Fraser, New York Times, February 1, 1990.
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- American male screenwriters
- Writers from Los Angeles
- 1916 births
- 1990 deaths
- American people of French descent
- New York University faculty
- 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- 20th-century American male writers
- Screenwriters from New York (state)
- Screenwriters from California
- 20th-century American screenwriters