Cornell Woolrich
Writer
December 4, 1903 – September 25, 1968
Credits:
Books:
Cover Charge (1926);
Children of the Ritz (1927); Times Square (1929); A Young Man's Heart (1930);
The Time of Her Life (1931); Manhattan
Love Song (1932); The Bride Wore Black (aka Beware the Lady) (1940); The Black
Curtain (1941); The Black Alibi (1942); Phantom Lady (1942); The Black Angel
(1943); The Black Path of Fear (1944); Deadline at Dawn (1944); Night has a
Thousand Eyes (1945); Waltz into Darkness (1947); I Married a Dead Man (1948);
Rendezvous in Black (1948); Fright (1950); Savage Bride (1950); Marihuana
(1951); Strangler's Serenade (1951); You'll Never See Me Again (1951); Hotel
Room (1958); Death is my Dancing Partner (1959); The Doom Stone (1960); Into
the Night (1987); Nightmare (1956); Violence (1958); Beyond the Night (1959);
The Ten Faces of Cornell Woolrich (1965); The Dark Side of Love (1965);
Nightwebs (1971); Angels of Darkness (1978); The Fantastic Stories of Cornell
Woolrich (1981); Four by Cornell Woolrich (1983); Rear Window (1984); Vampire's
Honeymoon (1985); Blind Date With Death (1985); Darkness at Dawn (1985); Night
and Fear (2003); Tonight Somewhere in New York (2005); Love and Night (2011); Death
in the Air (2020); Senor Flatfoot (2020); All at Once, No Alice (2020); The
Drugstore Cowboy (2020); Hot Water (2020); Dilemma of the Dead Lady (2020); The
Cornell Woolrich Omnibus (1998); Four Novellas of Fear (2010); Speak to Me of
Death (1935); The Screaming Laugh (1938); Through a Dead Man's Eye (1939); Somebody's
Clothes-Somebody's Life (1958).
Movies and television:
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Intrusa (1962); Aa bakudan (1964); Actor's Studio (1949); Akai shisen (1980); Alfred
Hitchcock Presents (1956–1958); Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1986); Arde, María,
arde (1978); Armchair Theatre (1959); Bire on vardi (1963); Black Angel (1946);
Children of the Ritz (1929); Climax! (1956); Cloak & Dagger (1984); Colgate
Theatre (1950); Convicted (1938); Corsa in discesa (1989); Darkroom (1982); Deadline
at Dawn (1946); Die Unschuld der Krähen (1998); Dro itsureba gantiadisas (1965);
El ojo de cristal (1956); El pendiente (1951); Escapade (1957); Fall Guy (1947);
Fallen Angels (1993–1995); Fear in the Night (1946); Fearful Dream (1966); Ficciones
(1974); Four Star Playhouse (1956); General Electric Theater (1957); Gran Teatro
(1960); Grande Teatro Tupi (1956); Gun Moll (1975); Hanayome wa nemurenai: Gôu
no naka no shussan (1987); Histoires insolites (1979); Hit List (2009); House
of Horror (1929); I Married a Shadow (1983); I Wouldn't Be in Your Shoes (1948);
If I Should Die Before I Wake (1952); I'm Dangerous Tonight (1990); Intrigues (1985);
Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theatre (1956); Journey to the Unknown (1968);
Kamen no hanayome - Kurayami e no waltz (1981); Kuroi kâten (1982); La huella
de unos labios (1952); La noche al hablar (1964); Les yeux qui hurlent (1973); Lights
Out (1952); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1957); Manhattan Love Song (1934); Manhunt (1951);
Martha (1974); Mississippi Mermaid (1969); Moment of Fear (1960); Mrs.
Winterbourne (1996); Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950); Never Open That Door (1952);
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948); Nightmare (1956); No Man of Her Own (1950); Obsession
(1954); Original Sin (2001); Phantom Lady (1944); Playhouse 90 (1956); Polis 3
(2001); Primera fila (1965); Rear Window (1954 / 1998); Rendez-vous en noir
(1977); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1951); Schlitz Playhouse (1958); Seven
Blood-Stained Orchids (1972); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); She's No Angel
(2002); Shisha to no kekkon (1960); Sít na bludicku (1983); Stage 7 (1955); Street
of Chance (1942); Studio 57 (1957); Suspense (1949–1950); Suspicion (1957); The
Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962); The Best in Mystery (1954); The Boris Karloff
Mystery Playhouse (1949); The Boy Cried Murder (1966); The Bride Wore Black
(1968); The Chase (1946); The Ford Television Theatre (1955); The George
Sanders Mystery Theater (1957); The Guilty (1947); The Haunted House (1928); The
Hunger (1997–2000); The Leopard Man (1943); The Mark of the Whistler (1944); The
Mask (1954); The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse (1953); The Return of the Whistler (1948);
The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Silver Theatre (1949); The Web (1957); The
Window (1949); Théâtre d'une heure (1966); Thriller (1961); Tras la puerta
cerrada (1964–1965); TV de Vanguarda (1954); TV Teatro (1959); Union City (1980);
Vikno navproti (1991); Yoru no wana (1967); You'll Never See Me Again (1973 / 1986);
Your Play Time (1954).
Recommended reading:
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Four Novellas of Fear
By Cornell Woolrich.
Paperback.
First published 2010.
Published by A. J. Cornell Publications.
ISBN-10: 0972743987
ISBN-13: 978-0972743983
Contents: Eyes That Watch You, The Night I Died, You'll Never See Me Again, Murder Always Gathers Momentum.
Description:
Cornell Woolrich, best known as the author of "Rear Window," is unsurpassed in his ability to create and sustain sheer suspense. In his tales of terror, ordinary people find themselves in the most extraordinary circumstances and, as readers, we share their spine-tingling tension every step of the way. Here, collected for the first time, are four of his most nail-biting novellas.
Eyes That Watch You
Greedy Vera Miller plots her husband’s murder right under the nose of her mute, paralyzed mother-in-law. After all, the old lady won’t be able to tell anyone about the crime. Or will she?
The Night I Died
Nice guy Ben Cook, goaded by his scheming common-law wife, fakes his own suicide and moves to another town all to trick his life insurance company into making a large payout. No one en route or at the new address will recognize him, will they?
You’ll Never See Me Again
Ed Bliss’s new bride, miffed by her husband’s insults about her biscuits, promises that Ed will never have to see her again and storms out! When she doesn t return within a few days, Ed begins to suspect foul play but when he reports the crime to the police, he’s the first one they suspect!
Murder Always Gathers Momentum
For his wife’s sake, Dick Paine approaches a former employer for back wages he is owed but things go terribly wrong and the old boss ends up dead. Now the guilt-ridden Paine, who’d never before committed a crime, is convinced that people will figure out what happened. As his paranoia gathers momentum, anyone he meets is at risk of becoming his next victim.
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Cornell Woolrich from
Pulp Noir to Film Noir
By Thomas C. Renzi
Published 2006.
Published by McFarland.
Illustrated edition.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 078642351X
ISBN-13: 978-0786423514
Description:
Extremely popular and
prolific in the 1930s and 1940s, Cornell Woolrich still has diehard fans who
thrive on his densely packed descriptions and his spellbinding premises. A
contemporary of Hammett and Chandler, he competed with them for notoriety in
the pulps and became the single most adapted writer for films of the noir
period. Perhaps the most famous film adaptation of a Woolrich story is Alfred
Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954). Even today, his work is still onscreen;
Michael Cristofer’s Original Sin (2001) is based on one of his tales.
This
book offers a detailed analysis of many of Woolrich’s novels and short stories;
examines films adapted from these works; and shows how Woolrich’s techniques
and themes influenced the noir genre. Twenty-two stories and 30 films compose
the bulk of the study, though many other additions of films noirs are also
considered because of their relevance to Woolrich’s plots, themes and
characters. The introduction includes a biographical sketch of Woolrich and his
relationship to the noir era, and the book is illustrated with stills from
Woolrich’s noir classics.
