15 Facts About Wanda Tuchock

Wanda Tuchock was an American advertising copywriter, screenwriter, director, and producer during the early 20th century.

Wanda Tuchock was credited with writing for over thirty films, and was one of the at least three women in the 1930s to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film.

Wanda Tuchock attended the University of California at Los Angeles.

Wanda Tuchock only had one silent film credit; she was "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".

Wanda Tuchock was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the early 1930s.

In 1929 Wanda Tuchock wrote Hallelujah, the first black-cast film produced by a major studio.

In 1934 Wanda Tuchock co-directed and wrote the film Finishing School with George Nichols Jr.

Wanda Tuchock retired in 1973 and died in 1985 at the age of 86.

Apart from Dorothy Arzner and Dorothy Davenport, Wanda Tuchock was the only woman to receive directing credit on a Hollywood studio film in the 1930s.

Wanda Tuchock wrote and co-directed the film Finishing School with George Nicholls, Jr.

Wanda Tuchock was a charter member of the Screen Writers Guild.

Wanda Tuchock was named a lifetime member of the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.

Wanda Tuchock 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.

Wanda Tuchock 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.

Wanda Tuchock wrote for over 30 films, directed three, and produced one.