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Polonsky, Abraham

LC control no.n 86140051
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3531.O377
Personal name headingPolonsky, Abraham
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See alsoFor works by this author written in collaboration with Mitchell A. Wilson, search also under Hogarth, Emmett
Hogarth, Emmett
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Found inBody and soul [MP] c1947: credits (original screenplay by Abraham Polonsky)
Performing arts biog. master index, 1981 (Abraham Polonsky b. 1910)
LC in OCLC, 2-13-87 (hdg.: Polonsky, Abraham)
Contemp. authors, 4-16-96 GaleNet, Contemporary authors (Polonsky, Abraham (Lincoln) 1910- pseud. Emmett Hogarth, joint pseud. with Mitchell A. Wilson; author of essays, short stories, and scripts for radio and television; director of motion pictures; LLB, Columbia University, 1935; b. Dec. 5, 1910, New York, N.Y.)
Abraham Polonsky, 2013: ECIP data view (b. 1910; d. 1999; screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth century; his auspicious beginning in Hollywood reached its peak with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Robert Rossen's boxing noir, Body and Soul (1947), and his inaugural film as writer and director, Force of Evil (1948), before he was blacklisted during the McCarthy witch hunt of Hollywood radicals and those who refused to name them; he revived his career in the 1960's)