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Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.
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Birth: | 29th January, 1913 |
Death: | 22nd February, 2003 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Screenwriter |
Daniel Taradash was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was an American screenwriter. Taradash's credits include Golden Boy, From Here to Eternity and Rancho Notorious. He graduated with a law degree and passed the New York State bar. But when his play The Mercy won the 1938 Bureau of New Plays contest, a career in theater was launched. His first assignment was as one of four credited writers on the screen version of Clifford Odets' Golden Boy. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama for From Here to Eternity, and received a WGA nomination for Picnic.
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