Charles Samuels
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Charles Samuels (September 15, 1902, in
Samuels began his career as a sports and feature writer with the Brooklyn Eagle in 1923.
His book with Boris Morros, My Ten Years as a Counterspy was made into the film,
Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. He was the New York City Editor of Paramount News.
He lived mostly in
Works
- Writings by the author
- The Frantic Young Man (novel), Coward, 1929.
- A Rather Simple Fellow (novel), Coward, 1931.
- The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, Gold Medal, 1953.
- The Girl in the House of Hate' (with Louise Samuels), Gold Medal, 1953.
- Death Was the Bridegroom, Gold Medal, 1953.
- Night Fell on Georgia (with Louise Samuels), Dell, Edgar Allan Poe Award, 1956. (about the Leo Frank case)
- The Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard (biography), McGraw, 1957.
- The King: The Biography of Clark Gable, Coward, 1962 (published in England as The King of Hollywood: The Story of Clark Gable, Allen & Unwin, 1962).
- Only One New York : The Unknown Worlds of the Great City, (photographs by Jan Yoors) Simon & Schuster, 1965.
- Once upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville (with L. Samuels), Dodd, 1974.
- As-told-to biographies
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow (with Ethel Waters), Doubleday, 1951, published with a new preface by Donald Bogle, Da Capo Press( New York City), 1992.
- Lady on the Beach (with Norah Berg), Prentice-Hall, 1952.
- Hockshop (with William R. and Florence K. Simpson), Random House, 1954.
- My Ten Years as a Counterspy (with Boris Morros), Viking, 1959.
- My Wonderful World of Slapstick (with Buster Keaton), Doubleday, 1960, published with a new introduction by Dwight Macdonald and a new filmography compiled by Raymond Rohauer, Da Capo Press, 1982.
- How to Catch 5,000 Thieves (with Gerard Luisi), Macmillan, 1962.
Quote
Samuels never graduated from high school or lost his Brooklyn accent. "I never wanted to be anything but a writer, have talent for nothing else except fast, furious, and occasionally witty conversation. I wouldn't trade my memories for anyone's," he told an interviewer.
External links
- Charles Samuels at IMDb
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-19.
- ^ Kussin, Zachary (2020-05-05). "Couple dies of coronavirus 3 days apart — but got to share hospital room". New York Post. Retrieved 2021-05-19.