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Borden Chase (born
January 11,
1900, died March 8,
1971) was an
American writer.
Born
Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster
Frankie Yale and working as a
sandhog on the construction of
New York's
Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays. When
20th Century Fox produced
Under Pressure (
1935), his screen adaptation of his novel,
Sandhog (based on his Holland Tunnel experience), he moved to
Hollywood and changed his name to Borden Chase, allegedly getting his nominal inspiration from
Borden Milk and
Chase Manhattan Bank.
Chase provided the story for
Anthony Mann's first film,
Dr. Broadway (
1942), but his screenplays for the director's 1950s westerns,
Winchester '73 (
1950),
Bend of the River (
1952) and
The Far Country (
1954), along with his
Academy Award nomination for
Howard Hawks' seminal
Red River (
1948), were his crowning achievements.
Chase was an active member of the
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, an anti-Communist group which was active in Hollywood during the years of the
Hollywood blacklist.
His daughter
Barrie Chase is a dancer and actress, and his son
Frank Chase was an actor and screenwriter.
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