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Cornell Woolrich

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Cornell George Hopley-Woolrich (December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968) was an American novelist and short story writer who wrote using the name Cornell Woolrich, and sometimes the pseudonyms William Irish and George Hopley. [1]

88 relations: After-Dinner Story, Alcoholism, Alfred Hitchcock, Amputation, Black Angel, Cannabis (drug), Carlos Hugo Christensen, Cloak & Dagger (1984 film), Columbia University, Convicted (1938 film), Crime fiction, Dashiell Hammett, Dead Man Blues, Deadline at Dawn, Deadline at Dawn (novel), Detective fiction, Don't Ever Open That Door, Eddie Duggan, Erle Stanley Gardner, Escapade (1957 film), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fall Guy (1947 film), Fear in the Night (1947 film), Ferncliff Cemetery, Film noir, François Truffaut, George Breakston, Glbtq.com, Hartsdale, New York, I Married a Dead Man, I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes, I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (novel), If I Should Die Before I Wake, J. Stuart Blackton, Jacques Tourneur, Jazz Age, Jean Delannoy, John Farrow, Kati Patang, Lawrence Block, León Klimovsky, Marihuana (novel), Martha (1974 film), Mexico, Mississippi Mermaid, Mitchell Leisen, Mrs. Winterbourne, Mystery Writers of America, New York City, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, ..., Nightmare (1956 film), No Man of Her Own, Novella, Obsession (1954 film), Original Sin (2001 film), Phantom Lady (film), Phantom Lady (novel), Pseudonym, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ralph Habib, Raymond Chandler, Rear Window, Rear Window (1998 film), Robert Siodmak, Ron Goulart, Seven Blood-Stained Orchids, Somebody on the Phone, Stewart v. Abend, Street of Chance (1942 film), Supreme Court of the United States, Suspense (radio drama), Ted Tetzlaff, The Black Angel (novel), The Black Curtain, The Boy Cried Murder, The Bride Wore Black, The Bride Wore Black (novel), The Chase (1946 film), The Dancing Detective, The Earring, The Guilty (1947 film), The Leopard Man, The Mark of the Whistler, The Return of the Whistler, The Window (film), Umberto Lenzi, Union City (film), William Castle. Expand index (38 more) »

After-Dinner Story

After-Dinner Story is a 1944 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director and producer, widely regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema.

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Amputation

Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery.

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Black Angel

Black Angel is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Roy William Neill starring Dan Duryea, June Vincent and Peter Lorre.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana among other names, is a psychoactive drug from the ''Cannabis'' plant intended for medical or recreational use.

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Carlos Hugo Christensen

Carlos Hugo Christensen (Santiago del Estero, 15 December 1914 - Rio de Janeiro, 30 November 1999) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Cloak & Dagger (1984 film)

Cloak & Dagger is a 1984 American spy adventure film directed by Richard Franklin, and starring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman and Michael Murphy.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Convicted (1938 film)

Convicted is a 1938 American/Canadian action film, directed by Leon Barsha.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Dashiell Hammett

Samuel Dashiell Hammett (May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961) was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories, screenwriter, and political activist.

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Dead Man Blues

Dead Man Blues is a 1948 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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Deadline at Dawn

Deadline at Dawn is a 1946 film noir, the only film directed by stage director Harold Clurman.

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Deadline at Dawn (novel)

Deadline at Dawn is a 1944 novel by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Don't Ever Open That Door

Don't Ever Open That Door (Spanish:No abras nunca esa puerta) is a 1952 Argentine thriller film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen and starring Ángel Magana, Roberto Escalada and Norma Giménez.

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Eddie Duggan

Eddie Duggan is a British photographer, film-maker, screenwriter, author and academic games historian.

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Erle Stanley Gardner

Erle Stanley Gardner (July 17, 1889 – March 11, 1970) was an American lawyer and author.

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Escapade (1957 film)

Escapade is a 1957 French adventure film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Louis Jourdan, Dany Carrel, and Roger Hanin.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age.

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Fall Guy (1947 film)

Fall Guy is a 1947 American crime film noir directed by Reginald Le Borg.

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Fear in the Night (1947 film)

Fear in the Night is a 1947 film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley (in his film debut).

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Ferncliff Cemetery

Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum is located at 280 Secor Road in the hamlet of Hartsdale, town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York, about north of Midtown Manhattan.

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Film noir

Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those which emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film critic, as well as one of the founders of the French New Wave.

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George Breakston

George Paul Breakston (January 22, 1920 – May 21, 1973) was a French-American actor, producer and film director, active in Hollywood from his days as a child actor in Andy Hardy films in the 1930s, to a period as an independent producer/director in the 1950s.

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Glbtq.com

glbtq.com was an online encyclopedia of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) culture.

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Hartsdale, New York

Hartsdale is a hamlet and a census-designated place (CDP) located in the town of Greenburgh, Westchester County, New York.

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I Married a Dead Man

I Married a Dead Man is a 1948 novel by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a 1948 American film noir directed by William Nigh, starring Don Castle and Elyse Knox.

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I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (novel)

I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes is a 1943 collection of five novellas by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym "William Irish".

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If I Should Die Before I Wake

If I Should Die Before I Wake is a 1946 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under his pseudonym, "William Irish".

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J. Stuart Blackton

James Stuart Blackton (January 5, 1875 – August 13, 1941) was a British-American film producer and director of the silent era.

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Jacques Tourneur

Jacques Tourneur (November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man.

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Jazz Age

The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles rapidly gained nationwide popularity.

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Jean Delannoy

Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.

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John Farrow

John Villiers Farrow, KGCHS (10 February 190427 January 1963) was an Australian-born American film director, producer and screenwriter.

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Kati Patang

Kati Patang is a 1971 Indian Hindi-language film produced and directed by Shakti Samanta.

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Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block (born June 24, 1938) is an American crime writer best known for two long-running New York–set series about the recovering alcoholic P.I. Matthew Scudder and the gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr.

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León Klimovsky

León Klimovsky (16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.

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Marihuana (novel)

Marihuana is a 1941 novella by Cornell Woolrich, published under the pen-name William Irish.

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Martha (1974 film)

Martha is a 1974 drama film made for German television directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mississippi Mermaid

Mississippi Mermaid (Mississipi) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo.

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Mitchell Leisen

Mitchell Leisen (October 6, 1898 – October 28, 1972) was an American director, art director, and costume designer.

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Mrs. Winterbourne

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Mystery Writers of America

Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is an organization of mystery and crime writers, based in New York City.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow.

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Nightmare (1956 film)

Nightmare is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane starring Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy and Connie Russell.

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No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own is a 1950 film noir directed by Mitchell Leisen and featuring Barbara Stanwyck, John Lund, Phyllis Thaxter, Jane Cowl and Lyle Bettger.

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Novella

A novella is a text of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, somewhere between 7,500 and 40,000 words.

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Obsession (1954 film)

Obsession is a 1954 French language motion picture crime drama directed by Jean Delannoy who co-wrote screenplay with Antoine Blondin, Roland Laudenbach and Gian Luigi Rondi, based on story "Silent as the Grave" by Cornell Woolrich written under the pseudonym of William Irish.

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Original Sin (2001 film)

Original Sin is a 2001 erotic thriller film starring Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie.

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Phantom Lady (film)

Phantom Lady is a 1944 crime drama film noir directed by Robert Siodmak starring Franchot Tone, Ella Raines and Alan Curtis.

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Phantom Lady (novel)

Phantom Lady is a 1942 crime novel written by American author Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym "William Irish".

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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Rainer Werner Fassbinder (31 May 1945 – 10 June 1982) was a West German filmmaker, actor, playwright and theatre director, who was a catalyst of the New German Cinema movement.

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Ralph Habib

Ralph Habib (Paris, 29 June 1912 - Paris, 27 June 1969) was a French film director of Lebanese origin.

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Raymond Chandler

Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.

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Rear Window

Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder".

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Rear Window (1998 film)

Rear Window is a 1998 American made-for-television crime-drama thriller film directed by Jeff Bleckner.

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Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States.

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Ron Goulart

Ron Goulart (born January 13, 1933)Comics Buyer's Guide #1650; February 2009; Page 107 is an American popular culture historian and mystery, fantasy and science fiction author.

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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids

Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso) is a ''giallo'' film directed by Umberto Lenzi, who also co-wrote the screenplay.

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Somebody on the Phone

Somebody on the Phone (a.k.a Deadly Night Call) is a 1950 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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Stewart v. Abend

Stewart v. Abend, 495 U.S. 207 (1990), was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that a successor copyright owner (one who obtains ownership later on, such as the heirs of a copyright owner who dies) has the exclusive right to permit the creation and exploitation of derivative works, regardless of potentially conflicting agreements by prior copyright holders.

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Street of Chance (1942 film)

Street of Chance is a 1942 film noir directed by Jack Hively and starring Burgess Meredith as a man who finds he's been suffering from amnesia and Claire Trevor as a woman who protects him from the police, who suspect him of murder.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Suspense (radio drama)

Suspense is a radio drama series broadcast on CBS Radio from 1942 through 1962.

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Ted Tetzlaff

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was a noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Black Angel (novel)

The Black Angel is a 1943 novel by Cornell Woolrich, which was based on two of his own short stories, Murder in Wax and Face Work (later reissued under the titled Angel Face. Woolrich had reworked many of his short stories into full-length novels, including Black Angel.

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The Black Curtain

The Black Curtain is a mystery novel written by Cornell Woolrich.

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The Boy Cried Murder

The Boy Cried Murder is a 1966 British thriller film directed by George P. Breakston and starring Fraser MacIntosh, Veronica Hurst, and Phil Brown.

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The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black (La Mariée était en noir) is a 1968 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the novel of the same name by William Irish, a pseudonym for Cornell Woolrich.

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The Bride Wore Black (novel)

The Bride Wore Black is a 1940 American novel written by Cornell Woolrich.

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The Chase (1946 film)

The Chase is a 1946 American film noir directed by Arthur Ripley.

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The Dancing Detective

The Dancing Detective is a 1946 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under the pseudonym William Irish.

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The Earring

The Earring (Spanish:El Pendiente) is a 1951 Argentine thriller film directed by León Klimovsky and starring Mirtha Legrand.

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The Guilty (1947 film)

The Guilty is a 1947 film noir based directed by John Reinhardt, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich.

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The Leopard Man

The Leopard Man is a 1943 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur based on the book Black Alibi by Cornell Woolrich.

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The Mark of the Whistler

The Mark of the Whistler is a 1944 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler.

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The Return of the Whistler

The Return of the Whistler is a 1948 American mystery film noir based on the radio drama The Whistler.

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The Window (film)

The Window is a 1949 American black-and-white suspense film noir, based on the short story "The Boy Cried Murder" (reprinted as "Fire Escape") by Cornell Woolrich about a lying boy who suspects that his neighbors are killers.

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Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Union City (film)

Union City is a 1980 American crime mystery film starring Dennis Lipscomb, Deborah Harry, and Everett McGill.

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William Castle

William Castle (April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Woolrich

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