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Lester Cohen

Nacimiento : 1901-08-17, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 1963-07-17

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lester Cohen (August 17, 1901 - July 17, 1963) was an American novelist, screenwriter and author of non-fiction. He is best known as the author of the novels Sweepings and Coming Home, and the screen play for Of Human Bondage. Cohen was the author of nine published books, two (or more) unpublished works (including The Fabulous World of Horace Liveright about the founder of Boni-Liveright Publishers and his circle, and Fallen Nation, an epic unfinished at the time of his death); six full-length stage plays, many short plays and scripts for television; poetry; articles and stories for periodicals; reviews and editorials for Variety; and many screen plays and treatments for motion pictures. Cohen was a member of the Dreiser Committee which visited the Kentucky coal fields in 1931 to document the labor struggles of Harlan County coal miners. John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson and other notable American writers were also on this committee and contributed to the written report produced by Dreiser. Cohen was a member of the League of American Writers, an affiliation of communists and communist sympathizers that was active between 1935 and 1943. It is uncertain how long he was a member or how deeply he was committed to communism. Cohen represented the American League for a Free Palestine at the first United Nations Conference in San Francisco in 1945. Cohen was a founding member of the Screen Writers’ Guild and was a member of the Authors’ Guild of America from 1926 to his death in 1963. He had no political or religious affiliations.

Películas

La última apuesta

La última apuesta

Production Design

San Francisco, 1963. La víspera de su partida a la guerra del Vietnam, un grupo de jóvenes marines realizan una cruel apuesta: cada uno pone 50 dólares. El que acuda con la chica más fea a la fiesta de despedida, se llevará todo el dinero.

Novel

A shop owner tries to interest his heirs in the family business.

Continuity

Inglaterra, año 1805. Phoebe Throssel, que vive con a su hermana Susan en Quality Street, ha conocido al apuesto doctor Valentine Brown y espera su visita en casa, creyendo que le propondrá matrimonio. Sin embargo, Brown sólo quiere decirle que se ha alistado en el ejército y tiene que partir hacia el frente. Diez años más tarde, convertido en capitán, regresa inesperadamente y encuentra a Phoebe muy cambiada: con el propósito de rejuvenecer, se hace pasar por un personaje inexistente: Olivia, su propia sobrina. Brown cae rendido ante los encantos de la juvenil Olivia.

Corazones rotos

Corazones rotos

Story

El profesor Thalma presenta, en su casa, al prestigioso director de orquesta Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) y a su alumna Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn), la cual impresionará luego, con su belleza y su talento como compositora al notable director. Después de estar felizmente casados, comenzarán los problemas cuando, a la vida de Franz, regresa una atractiva amiga de los viejos tiempos.

Cautivo del deseo

Cautivo del deseo

Screenplay

Philip, un estudiante de medicina, se enamora perdidamente de una camarera llamada Mildred. Ella, que le hace creer que también lo ama, ejerce sobre el joven un influjo tan poderoso que, a pesar de las humillaciones y desprecios a que lo somete, vuelve con ella una y otra vez. Esta situación de inestabilidad lo lleva a fracasar en los estudios, pero entonces empieza a comprender cuáles son las verdaderas intenciones de Mildred.

One Man's Journey

One Man's Journey

Screenplay

Dr. Eli Watt, a widower, comes to a small town, considering himself a failure in his attempt to have a meaningful career in New York. He raises his son Jimmy as well as Letty, a baby whose mother has died in childbirth and whose father blames Watt and abandons the child. Watt dreams of returning to do research studies, but always something gets in the way: an epidemic, his children's needs, or the needs of his generally ungrateful patients. Only with the passing years does he come to find that his future isn't over and his past isn't quite the failure he believed.

Honrarás a tu padre

Honrarás a tu padre

Screenplay

Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.

Honrarás a tu padre

Honrarás a tu padre

Novel

Daniel es un hombre que se ha hecho a sí mismo. A partir de la nada construyó uno de los almacenes más grandes e importantes de Chicago. Sin embargo, cuando llega el momento de que sus hijos lo releven, no le resultará nada fácil compaginar sus intereses con los de sus vástagos.

Story

A doctor searches for the cure for nagana, the sleeping sickness caused by the tsetse fly.