CASABLANCA 1942, BEST SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD PRESENTED TO HOWARD KOCH The gold plated brittania statue with the front plaque on the base inscribed ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES FIRST AWARD 1943 ; on the reverse the plaque ACADEMY FIRST AWARD TO HOWARD KOCH FOR WRITING SCREENPLAY OF "CASABLANCA"-- 12 in. high . Howard Koch (1902 - ) began his career as a playwright in the late 1920s including Give Us This Day and In Time To Come . John Houseman had read his work and told Mr. Koch that he and Orson Welles had an hourly radio play to do; they were looking for a writer they could get very quickly. In 1938 his script the War Of the Worlds became a legendary radio broadcast, directed by Orson Welles Arriving in Hollywood in 1939, director John Huston helped him get a job at Warner Bros. for $300 a week; Howard Koch's initial contribution to film came in 1940 with Virginia City . After writing The Sea Hawk for Errol Flynn, and The Letter for Bette Davis, Hal Wallis asked him to collaborate with writing team Julius and Philip Epstein on Casablanca . Howard Koch is unquestionably responsible for giving Humphrey Bogart's character "Rick" his fierce political beliefs. While the Epsteins and Koch worked on eachother's scripts, Hal Wallis acted as intermediary and the three writers never actually wrote together. The final result shows the contributions and talent of all writers involved. In 1947 Howard Koch was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Most of the nineteen "unfriendly" witnesses were writers and despite the fact that Mr. Koch had not been called to testify, and was not a member of any Communist party, he was nonetheless "blacklisted" and forced into exile. He continued his writing career in Europe under an assumed name, completing such works as "A Letter From An Unknown Woman" , for which he was named one of the 10 "great's" of all time at the World's Critics Meeting in Lisbon in 1948. In 1961 he once again began to script British films ( Loss Of Innocence , The War Lover ) under his own name.
CASABLANCA 1942, BEST SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD PRESENTED TO HOWARD KOCH The gold plated brittania statue with the front plaque on the base inscribed ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES FIRST AWARD 1943 ; on the reverse the plaque ACADEMY FIRST AWARD TO HOWARD KOCH FOR WRITING SCREENPLAY OF "CASABLANCA"-- 12 in. high . Howard Koch (1902 - ) began his career as a playwright in the late 1920s including Give Us This Day and In Time To Come . John Houseman had read his work and told Mr. Koch that he and Orson Welles had an hourly radio play to do; they were looking for a writer they could get very quickly. In 1938 his script the War Of the Worlds became a legendary radio broadcast, directed by Orson Welles Arriving in Hollywood in 1939, director John Huston helped him get a job at Warner Bros. for $300 a week; Howard Koch's initial contribution to film came in 1940 with Virginia City . After writing The Sea Hawk for Errol Flynn, and The Letter for Bette Davis, Hal Wallis asked him to collaborate with writing team Julius and Philip Epstein on Casablanca . Howard Koch is unquestionably responsible for giving Humphrey Bogart's character "Rick" his fierce political beliefs. While the Epsteins and Koch worked on eachother's scripts, Hal Wallis acted as intermediary and the three writers never actually wrote together. The final result shows the contributions and talent of all writers involved. In 1947 Howard Koch was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Most of the nineteen "unfriendly" witnesses were writers and despite the fact that Mr. Koch had not been called to testify, and was not a member of any Communist party, he was nonetheless "blacklisted" and forced into exile. He continued his writing career in Europe under an assumed name, completing such works as "A Letter From An Unknown Woman" , for which he was named one of the 10 "great's" of all time at the World's Critics Meeting in Lisbon in 1948. In 1961 he once again began to script British films ( Loss Of Innocence , The War Lover ) under his own name.
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