1. Samuel Guy Endore, born Samuel Goldstein and known as Harry Relis, was an American novelist and screenwriter.
19 Facts About Guy Endore
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Guy Endore was born Samuel Goldstein in Brooklyn, New York, to Isidor and Malka Halpern Goldstein.
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Guy Endore's father was a coal miner, inventor, and investor from Pittsburgh who often had difficulty making ends meet.
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Guy Endore's most famous work was The Werewolf of Paris, a violent horror story set during the Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune and inspired by the work of Hanns Heinz Ewers, whom Endore had translated.
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Guy Endore's only other popular literary success came with King of Paris: A Novel, based on the life of Alexandre Dumas.
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Guy Endore made his name in the supernatural arena, with such movies as Mark of the Vampire and The Curse of the Werewolf.
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Guy Endore began his movie writing career in 1935, when he wrote the story for Rumba, a star vehicle for George Raft and Carole Lombard, which was given a scathing review in The New York Times.
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Guy Endore worked on the screenplay for Mark of the Vampire starring Bela Lugosi.
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Guy Endore wrote the 19-page treatment that eventually became The Raven, for which he was not credited.
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Guy Endore was a member of the Communist Party in Hollywood and was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee during its search for Communist infiltration of the film industry.
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Guy Endore was never called to testify and did not spend any time in jail.
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Guy Endore retained his profound interest in historical subjects throughout his career.
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Guy Endore had strong related interests, intellectual and moral, in mysticism, yoga, vegetarianism, theosophy and anti-vivisectionism.
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In 1942 Guy Endore involved himself deeply in the defense of those arrested in the "Sleepy Lagoon" case, when seventeen Mexican teenagers were incarcerated for a murder.
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Guy Endore became involved when he looked into the case and was startled by the lack of evidence.
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Guy Endore proceeded to write a pamphlet entitled The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery which went over in detail the mistakes and oversights involved in the case.
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Guy Endore supported non-governmental drug rehab programs and became a devoted proponent of the Synanon Foundation, a controversial southern California commune dedicated to reforming and rehabilitating drug addicts and alcoholics.
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Guy Endore composed pamphlets and a published history of the commune, Synanon.
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Guy Endore taught fiction writing at the Los Angeles People's Education Center, a CPUSA offshoot of the New York Workers School.