P. J. Wolfson

P. J. Wolfson
Three of a Kind by P. J. Wolfson, 1957
Born	Pincus Jacob Wolfson (1903-05-22)May 22, 1903 New York, United States
Died	April 16, 1979(1979-04-16) (aged 75) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, United States
Occupation	Screenwriter producer writer
Nationality	American

Pincus Jacob Wolfson (May 22, 1903, New York – April 16, 1979, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American writer turned screenwriter and film producer.

Biography[]

Pincus Jacob Wolfson was born to Russian-Jewish immigrants^[1] in New York City. His father worked as a plumber and he studied pharmacy at Fordham University. While later working in a pharmacy in Madison Square Garden, he wrote his first novels. Wolfson published his first novel, Bodies Are Dust, in 1931. His success and that of his three following novels helped him become a writer and producer in Hollywood. Until the end of his life, he worked for the biggest production companies such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures. He wrote numerous scripts for film and television. He produced 30 episodes of the television series I Married Joan between 1952 and 1955.

Bodies Are Dust, published twice in two different titles in French, was called a "masterpiece" by Jean-Patrick Manchette.^[2]

Work[]

Novels

• Bodies Are Dust (1931)
• Summer Hotel (1932)
• All Women Die (1933)
• My Flesh of Brass (1934)
• How Sharp the Point (1959)

Partial filmography[]

Director

• 1939 : Boy Slaves with Anne Shirley

Writer

• 1933 : Picture Snatcher by Lloyd Bacon with James Cagney
• 1933 : The Tourbillon Dance by Robert Z. Leonard with Joan Crawford and Clark Gable
• 1935 : Reckless Youth by Victor Fleming with Jean Harlow and William Powell
• 1935 : The Mad Love of Hands by Karl Freund with Peter Lorre and Frances Drake
• 1936 : Carolyn wants to Divorce by Leigh Jason with Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Raymond and Robert Young
• 1937 : The Enterprising Mr. Petrov by Mark Sandrich with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
• 1937 : Sea Devils by Benjamin Stoloff with Victor McLaglen and Preston Foster
• 1938 : Marriage Incognito by George Stevens with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
• 1939 : Allegheny Uprising by William A. Seiter with Claire Trevor and John Wayne
• 1940 : Vigil in the Night by George Stevens with Carole Lombard and Brian Aherne
• 1940 : He Stayed for Breakfast by Alexander Hall with Loretta Young and Melvyn Douglas
• 1941 : Our Wife by John M. Stahl with Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey and Ellen Drew
• 1942 : Embrace the Bride by Alexander Hall with Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas
• 1947 : Suddenly, It's Spring by Mitchell Leisen with Paulette Goddard and Fred MacMurray
• 1947 : The Exploits of Pearl White by George Marshall with Betty Hutton and John Lund
• 1948 : Saigon by Leslie Fenton with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

Producer

• 1938 : The Mad Miss Manton by Leigh Jason with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda
• 1939 : Boy Slaves
• 1939 : Allegheny Uprising by William A. Seiter with Claire Trevor and John Wayne
• 1943 : My Kingdom for a Cook by Richard Wallace with Charles Coburn, Marguerite Chapman, and Bill Carter.
• 1948 : Saigon by Leslie Fenton with Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake

Citations[]

• Claude Mesplède (1992). Editions Encrage (ed.). Les années "Série noire" : bibliographie critique d'une collection policière 1945–1959 (in French). 1. Amiens. ISBN 978-2-906-38934-2.
• Claude Mesplède (1994). Editions Encrage (ed.). Les années "Série noire" : bibliographie critique d'une collection policière 1966–1972. 22 (in French). 3. Amiens. ISBN 978-2-906-38953-3.
• Claude Mesplède; Jean-Jacques Schleret (1982). Futuropolis (ed.). SN, voyage au bout de la Noire : inventaire de 732 auteurs et de leurs œuvres publiés en séries Noire et Blème : suivi d'une filmographie complète (in French). Paris. p. 476. OCLC 11972030.

External links[]

• P. J. Wolfson at IMDb