11 Facts About Gene Fowler

Gene Fowler's assignments included an interview with the frontiersman and Wild West Show promoter Buffalo Bill Cody.

Gene Fowler established his trademark impertinence by questioning Cody about his many love affairs.

Gene Fowler was known for his racy, readable content and for the speed of his writing.

Gene Fowler left Denver for Chicago and met Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Gene Fowler eventually moved to New York where Fowler worked for the New York Daily Mirror, New York Evening Journal and as managing editor of the New York American and The Morning Telegraph.

Gene Fowler began writing books and his third, The Great Mouthpiece, about the attorney William J Fallon, became a bestseller and got him noticed by Hollywood where he became one of the highest paid screenwriters.

Gene Fowler collaborated with Bess Meredyth on a stage play, The Mighty Barnum, which was later filmed, and with Ben Hecht on the play The Great Magoo.

Fields, whose animus toward children is legendary, claimed that Gene Fowler's sons were the only children he could stand.

Gene Fowler died in West Los Angeles, California, aged 70 of a heart attack.

Gene Fowler had been writing a book based on his time as a New York newspaperman for over 5 years and had almost completed it before his death.

Gene Fowler wrote or co-wrote screenplays for the following movies.