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Curt Siodmak (1902–2000) was a novelist and screenwriter, author of the novel Donovan's Brain, which was made into a number of films. He also wrote the novels Hauser's Memory and Gabriel's Body. 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
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Donovans brain was a 1942 horror novel by Curt Siodmak. ...
Biography
Born Kurt Siodmak in Dresden, Germany, Curt Siodmak acquired a PhD in mathematics before beginning to write novels. He invested early royalties earned by his first books in the movie Menschen am Sonntag (1929)[1], a documentary-style chronicle of the lives of four Berliners on a Sunday based on their own lives. The movie was co-directed by Curt Siodmak's older brother, director Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, with a script by Billy Wilder. For other uses, see Dresden (disambiguation). ...
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Menschen am Sonntag (also known in English as People on Sunday) is a 1929 German silent movie, directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. ...
Robert Siodmak (August 8, 1900 - March 10, 1973) was a film director born in Memphis, Tennessee (sometimes his birthplace is stated as Dresden, Germany). ...
Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-born, Jewish-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ...
In the following years Curt Siodmak wrote many novels, screenplays and short stories including the novel F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht (aka F.P.1 Doesn't Answer) (1933) which became a popular movie starring Hans Albers and Peter Lorre. Hans Albers Hans Albers (September 22, 1891 Hamburg - July 24, 1960 Starnberg) was a German actor and singer. ...
Peter Lorre, 1946, by Yousuf Karsh Peter Lorre (June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964), born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a stage and screen actor of Austrian descent especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries. ...
Siodmak decided to emigrate after hearing an anti-semitic tirade by the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, and departed for England where he made a living as a screenwriter before travelling to the USA in 1937. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German politician and Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the National Socialist regime from 1933 to 1945. ...
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His big break came with the screenplay for The Wolf Man (1941) which established this fictional creature as the most popular movie monster after Dracula and Frankenstein. The Wolf Man is a 1941 horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. ...
Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary character the vampire Count Dracula. ...
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In The Wolf Man Siodmak made reference to many werewolf legends: being marked by a pentagram being practically immortal apart from being struck/shot by silver implements/bullets and the famous verse: The Wolf Man is a 1941 horror film written by Curt Siodmak and produced and directed by George Waggner, starring Lon Chaney Jr, Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, and Maria Ouspenskaya. ...
A werewolf (also lycanthrope or wolfman) in folklore is a person who shapeshifts into a wolf or wolflike creature, either purposely, by using magic, or after being placed under a curse. ...
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"Even a man who is pure in heart,
And says his prayers by night May become a Wolf when the Wolfbane blooms And the autumn Moon is bright" (the last line was changed in the sequels to The Moon is full and bright). These so-called legends were nothing of the kind. Siodmak simply made them up but they are believed by many to be genuine. (See Universal Home Video DVD release of The Wolf Man for details).
Siodmak's science-fiction novel Donovan's Brain (1943) was a bestseller and was adapted for the cinema several times. Other notable films he wrote include Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, I Walked With a Zombie and The Beast With Five Fingers. Donovans brain was a 1942 horror novel by Curt Siodmak. ...
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I Walked with a Zombie is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur. ...
The Beast with Five Fingers is a short story By W. F. Harvey]. first published in the New Decamaron. ...
Though often eclipsed by the fame of his older brother Robert, Curt Siodmak is considered by some the more talented of the two men.
Works
Novels - F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1933)
- Black Friday (1939)
- Donovan's Brain (1942)
- The Beast with Five Fingers (1945)
- Whomsoever I Shall Kiss (1952)
- Riders to the Stars (1954)
- Skyport (1959)
- For Kings Only (1964)
- Hauser's Memory (1968)
- The Third Ear (1971)
- City in the Sky (1974)
- Frankenstein Meets Wolfman (1981)
- Gabriel's Body (1992)
Donovans brain was a 1942 horror novel by Curt Siodmak. ...
Short stories - The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika (1926)
- Variation of a Theme (1972)
- The P Factor (1976)
- Experiment with Evil (1985)
Non fiction - Even a Man Who Is Pure in Heart: The Life of a Writer, Not Always to His Liking (1997)
- Wolf Man's Maker (2001) (Posthumous autobiography)
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