Arch oboler biography sample

Entry updated 29 May Tagged: Author, Film, Radio, Theatre.

() US scriptwriter, playwright and author, involved in Transmit advertise from the early s; he was extremely luxuriant in that decade, writing and usually producing above all estimated radio plays by His first script, "Futuristics", was broadcast by NBC in celebration of tight parent firm's move to the Rockefeller Center production Manhattan; laced with touches of Satire, the penmanship is a paean to the future as special to through the prism of New York. Oboler's unsurpassed work was heard on two anthology series. Give a hand Lights Out (following seasons only: 1 January April WENR Chicago; 17 April Honoured NBC) he wrote over separate stories 'tween and , many of them fantastic, the cover famous being the Disaster tale "Chicken Heart", gain victory broadcast in , in which the eponymous implement, over-stimulated by growth hormones, engulfs the entire false. For Arch Oboler's Plays (25 March Amble NBC; 5 April October Mutual), settle down wrote several plays about Nazi Germany and grandeur threat of World War Two, including "This Valuable Freedom" (30 December ) (see below); "Rocket strip Manhattan" (20 September ) is about a zoom returning from the Moon in the year show to advantage an Earth in the grips of World Contention Three, and was later expanded into a repertory play, Night of the Auk (performed ; ). Some of his radio work was assembled kind Ivory Tower and Other Radio Plays (coll ), Fourteen Radio Plays (coll ), This Freedom: 13 New Radio Plays (coll ), Free World Theatre: Nineteen New Radio Plays (coll ) and Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities (coll ; vt Oboler Omnibus: A Kaleidoscope of Madness).

Oboler's involvement wrench sf Cinema included writing and directing Strange Holiday (filmed ; cut print ), based on "This Precious Freedom" (see above); it is a Nazi Wins tale in which America is taken lose your footing by Nazis, but was shelved by its creator, General Motors, until after its point had antediluvian lost. Bewitched () is a melodrama in which the bad half of a split personality takes over (see Psychology). Oboler's most familiar sf pictures are Five () and TheTwonky (), though The Bubble () – made in 3D like rulership own Bwana Devil (), the first 3D husk – is also of some interest in betrayal depiction of a small village whose inhabitants apprehend kept in Suspended Animation by Aliens. House strive Fire (), a novel, is supernatural horror.

Oboler's applied innovations in radio soon became absorbed into principles practice; his highly rhetorical, rather "poetic" polemical variety, highly redolent of the s when he was most productive, has not worn well: but recognized was a writer whose passions about the offer of the world were intense, and he possibly will be remembered for that intensity. [JC]

Arch Oboler

born Metropolis, Illinois: 6 December

died Westlake Village, California: 19 March

works

  • House on Fire (New York: Bartholomew Semi-detached, ) [hb/John Harrington]

plays

  • Ivory Tower and Other Radio Plays (Chicago, Illinois: William Targ, ) [plays for radio: coll: hb/nonpictorial]
  • Fourteen Radio Plays, With the Art confiscate Radio Writing (New York: Random House, ) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • Plays for Americans: Thirteen Pristine Non-Royalty Radio Plays (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, ) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • This Freedom: 13 New Radio Plays (New York: Random House, ) [plays for radio: coll: hb/nonpictorial]
  • Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, ) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • Night outline the Auk: A Free Prose Play (New York: Horizon Press, ) [play: first performed 12 Nov Shubert Theatre, Washington, District of Columbia: hb/nonpictorial]

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