Rose Caylor
Rose Caylor | |
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Born | Rose Libman 15 March 1898 Vilna, Russian Empire |
Died | March 1979 (aged 80–81) Nyack, New York, U.S. |
Education | The University of Chicago |
Occupation(s) | Screenwriter, playwright, journalist, actress |
Spouse | Ben Hecht (m.1926–1964, his death) |
Children | Jenny Hecht |
Rose Caylor (born Rose Libman, 15 March 1898 – March 1979) was a Russian-American screenwriter, playwright, actress, and journalist known for her work in the U.S. in the 1920s through the 1940s. She was married to filmmaker and journalist Ben Hecht.
Biography
Rose was born into a Jewish family in Vilna, in what was then the Russian Empire. Her father, Morris Libman, emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, and Rose and her mother and sister followed the next year, settling in Chicago, Illinois.
Rose attended the University of Chicago[1] and afterward began working at The Chicago Daily News, where she met her future husband, writer Ben Hecht.[2] The pair moved to New York together in 1924, and married in 1926 after his divorce from his first wife was finalized. They'd have one daughter, actress Jenny Hecht.[3][4]
Over the course of her career as a writer, she wrote a number of original stage plays[5] and novels;[6] she also authored the 1942 film noir Fingers at the Window. She appears to have worked on several films with her husband that she didn't receive credits on.[7][8] She also translated plays from Russian into English for Broadway productions.[9] During World War II, she went to work on the assembly line at an aviation plant.[10]
Ben Hecht died in 1964, and Jenny Hecht died of an accidental drug overdose in 1971.[11] Rose was living in Nyack, New York, where she died in March 1979.
Selected works
Screenplays:
- Fingers at the Window (1942)
- Once in a Blue Moon (1936) (uncredited)[12]
- Spring Tonic (1935) (uncredited)
Stage plays:
- Man-Eating Tiger
- All He Ever Loved
- Lentil
Novels:
- The Journey
- The Balcony
References
- ^ "10 Sep 1980, 30 - Chicago Tribune at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "18 Apr 1964, 2 - Chillicothe Gazette at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "14 Mar 1960, Page 39 - The Minneapolis Star at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "10 Jul 1954, 41 - Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "19 Aug 1927, 33 - Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "2 Oct 1933, 8 - Courier-Post at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "24 Apr 1935, Page 6 - The Paris News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "14 Apr 1935, Page 57 - Democrat and Chronicle at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "8 Jun 1930, Page 62 - Detroit Free Press at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ "2 Apr 1943, Page 14 - The Evening News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
- ^ com/image/ 30315930/?terms=%22jenny+hecht%22+overdose "26 Mar 1971, Page 6 - Valley News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
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- Crime Without Passion (1934)
- Once in a Blue Moon (1935)
- The Scoundrel (1935)
- Soak the Rich (1936)
- Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Specter of the Rose (1946)
- Actor's and Sin (1952)
- Underworld (1927)
- The Great Gabbo (1929)
- The Unholy Night (1929)
- Roadhouse Nights (1930)
- The Unholy Garden (1931)
- Scarface (1932)
- Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
- Topaze (1933)
- Turn Back the Clock (1933)
- Design for Living (1933)
- Viva Villa! (1934)
- Shoot the Works (1934)
- Twentieth Century (1934)
- Crime Without Passion (1934)
- The Scoundrel (1935)
- The Florentine Dagger (1935)
- Barbary Coast (1935)
- Nothing Sacred (1937)
- The Goldwyn Follies (1938)
- Gunga Din (1939)
- Wuthering Heights (1939)
- Let Freedom Ring (1939)
- It's a Wonderful World (1939)
- Lady of the Tropics (1939)
- His Girl Friday (1940)
- Angels Over Broadway (1940)
- Comrade X (1940)
- Lydia (1941)
- China Girl (1942)
- Roxie Hart (1942)
- Spellbound (1945)
- The Black Swan (1945)
- Specter of the Rose (1946)
- Notorious (1946)
- Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
- Kiss of Death (1947)
- Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
- The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
- Perfect Strangers (1950)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- Whirlpool (1950)
- Actor's and Sin (1952)
- Monkey Business (1952)
- Living It Up (1954)
- Ulysses (1954)
- The Indian Fighter (1955)
- Miracle in the Rain (1956)
- The Iron Petticoat (1956)
- A Farewell to Arms (1957)
- Legend of the Lost (1957)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957)
- The Sun Also Rises (1957)
- Queen of Outer Space (1958)
- Billy Rose's Jumbo (1962)
- Circus World (1964)
- 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
- The Front Page (1928)
- Twentieth Century (1932)
- Jumbo (1935)
- Ladies and Gentlemen (1939)
- A Flag Is Born (1946)
- Rose Caylor (wife)
- Willys Theatre Presenting Ben Hecht's Tales of the City
- Gaily, Gaily (1969 film)