William Bowers was an American reporter, playwright, and screenwriter.
20 Facts About William Bowers
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William Bowers worked as a reporter in Long Beach, California and for Life magazine, and specialized in writing comedy-westerns.
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William Bowers's first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy for Kay Kyser in 1942.
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Also at that studio William Bowers helped write the musical comedy Seven Days' Leave, which was a considerable hit, and The Adventures of a Rookie with the team of Carney and Brown.
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William Bowers did Higher and Higher, Frank Sinatra's second movie.
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William Bowers later wrote a screenplay based on his experiences, The Last Time I Saw Archie, where Jack Webb played William Bowers.
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William Bowers wrote Sing Your Way Home with Jack Haley for RKO.
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At Universal William Bowers wrote The Web, a noir, and Deanna Durbin's second last film Something in the Wind.
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William Bowers provided the story for the Abbott and Costello comedy The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap and wrote the Yvonne de Carlo-Dan Duryea Westerns Black Bart, Highwayman and River Lady.
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William Bowers did some uncredited work on United Artists' Pitfall.
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William Bowers wrote a noir, Larceny then did a Sonja Henie musical, The Countess of Monte Cristo.
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William Bowers did some uncredited work on Criss Cross and provided the story for the de Carlo vehicle, The Gal Who Took the West.
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William Bowers wrote Convicted for Columbia, Mrs O'Malley and Mr Malone for MGM, Cry Danger for Robert Parrish at RKO, The Mob for Parrish at Columbia, and The San Francisco Story for Parrish at RKO.
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William Bowers did "The Girl on the Park Bench" for Powell's Four Star Theatre and some work on Beautiful But Dangerous for RKO.
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William Bowers did "Trouble with Youth" for Ford Television Theatre.
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William Bowers stayed on at MGM to do The Law and Jake Wade, and Imitation General.
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William Bowers wrote a Bob Hope comedy for company, Alias Jesse James and did two films for Jack Webb, Deadline Midnight and The Last Time I Saw Archie.
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William Bowers had a bit part as an actor in The Godfather Part II.
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William Bowers wrote a TV movie for Burt Kennedy, Sidekicks.
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William Bowers focused on TV movies and an independent production: The Gun and the Pulpit, Mobile Two Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid, Shame, Shame on the Bixby Boys, The Wild Wild West Revisited, and More Wild Wild West.