Wanda Tuchock
| Wanda Tuchock | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 20, 1898 Pueblo, Colorado |
| Died | February 10, 1985 (aged 86) Woodland Hills, Los Angeles |
| Occupation | screenwriter, director, producer, copywriter |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California at Los Angeles |
| Spouse | George DeNormand |
Wanda Tuchock was an American advertising copywriter, screenwriter, director, and producer during the early 20th century. She was credited with writing for over thirty films, and was one of the two women in the 1930s to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film. She retired in 1973 and died in 1985 at the age of 86.
Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898 in Pueblo, Colorado. Tuchock attended the University of California at Los Angeles. She married the actor and director George DeNormand, who was born on September 22, 1903 in New York and died on December 23, 1976 in California. Tuchock retired at the age of 75 in 1973. She died on February 10, 1985 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles of an undisclosed illness at the age of 86.
Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor. In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the silent film industry. She only had one silent film credit which allowed her to become "one of the few women who began her career in the silent era and was able to maintain her career in Hollywood during the early sound years". She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the early 1930s. At RKO Radio Pictures she became one of only two women in the 1930s, next to Dorothy Arzner, to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film. Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit. In the 1950s, Tuchock was credited as a producer, writer, and direcector of a short called Road Runners.
In 1929 Tuchock wrote Hallelujah, the first black-cast film produced by a major studio. In 1931 she wrote the adaptation for the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise). In 1932 she did the original adaptation for the film Little Orphan Annie based on the comic strip. In 1934 Tuchick co-directed and wrote the film Finishing School with George Nichols Jr. In 1940 she wrote the musical Youth Will Be Served. In 1947 she wrote the screenplay for The Foxes of Harrow.
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