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Daniel Taradash

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The Resume

    (January 29, 1913-February 22, 2003)
    Born in Louisville, Kentucky
    Wrote screenplays for 'Golden Boy' (1939), 'Rancho Notorious' (1952), 'From Here to Eternity' (1953), 'Desiree' (1954), Picnic' (1955), 'Bell, Book and Candle' (1958), 'Hawaii' (1966), 'Doctors' Wives' (1971), and 'The Other Side of Midnight' (1977)
    Directed and co-wrote 'Storm Center' (1956)
    President of the <23204>Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (1970-73)

Why he might be annoying:

    He graduated from Harvard Law School and passed the New York bar, but never practiced. (He later admitted he studied law only at his father's insistence.)
    His adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'Les Mains sales' for Broadway as 'Red Gloves' was denounced by Sartre as 'a vulgar, common melodrama.'
    His one directorial effort was a box office flop, while critics tended to laud its good intentions while damning the execution. ('Time' magazine: 'Its heart is insistently in the right place.... All that writer-director Taradash forgot was to provide a believable story.')
    He noted about the demise of the studio system, 'My credits after that are not good.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was married to Madeline Forbes for 57 years.
    During World War II, he served in the Army Signal Corps making training films.
    He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for 'From Here to Eternity.'
    'Storm Center' was honored at the Cannes Film Festival as 'this year's film which best helps freedom of expression and tolerance.'
    Asked to do rewrites for a film, he had his agent respond, 'Dan figures it will take two weeks and he wants $100,000. Or, he will do it for Guild minimum [$350 a week], but you have to actually shoot what he writes.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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