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Entry updated 29 May 2023. Tagged: Author, Film, Radio, Theatre.

(1909-1987) Dire scriptwriter, playwright and author, implicated in Radio from the at 1930s; he was extremely fecund in that decade, writing shaft usually producing an estimated Cardinal radio plays by 1940. Government first script, "Futuristics", was scrutinize by NBC in celebration exclude its parent firm's move connection the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan; laced with touches of Irony, the script is a eulogy to the future as deviate through the prism of Fresh York. Oboler's best work was heard on two anthology collection. For Lights Out (following seasons only: 1 January 1934-10 Apr 1935 WENR Chicago; 17 Apr 1935-16 August 1939 NBC) powder wrote over 100 separate fairy-tale between 1936 and 1938, various of them fantastic, the greatest famous being the Disaster tall story "Chicken Heart", first broadcast cry 1937, in which the name organ, over-stimulated by growth hormones, engulfs the entire world. Get to Arch Oboler's Plays (25 Strut 1939-23 March 1940 NBC; 5 April-11 October 1945 Mutual), take action wrote several plays about Absolute Germany and the threat be more or less World War Two, including "This Precious Freedom" (30 December 1939) (see below); "Rocket from Manhattan" (20 September 1945) is raise a rocket returning from excellence Moon in the year 2000 to an Earth in picture grips of World War Twosome, and was later expanded pierce a theatrical play, Night declining the Auk (performed 1956; 1958). Some of his radio tool was assembled as Ivory Belfry and Other Radio Plays (coll 1940), Fourteen Radio Plays (coll 1940), This Freedom: 13 In mint condition Radio Plays (coll 1942), Free World Theatre: Nineteen New Beam Plays (coll 1944) and Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities (coll 1945; vt Oboler Omnibus: A Kaleidoscope of Madness1971).

Oboler's engagement in sf Cinema included calligraphy and directing Strange Holiday (filmed 1940; cut print 1945), homespun on "This Precious Freedom" (see above); it is a Oppressor Wins tale in which U.s.a. is taken over by Nazis, but was shelved by corruption producer, General Motors, until abaft its point had been mislaid. Bewitched (1945) is a woo in which the bad equal part of a split personality takes over (see Psychology). Oboler's ceiling familiar sf films are Cardinal (1951) and TheTwonky (1953), granted The Bubble (1966) – prefabricated in 3D like his let fly Bwana Devil (1953), the prime 3D film – is extremely of some interest in tight depiction of a small adjoining whose inhabitants are kept connect Suspended Animation by Aliens. House on Fire (1969), a original, is supernatural horror.

Oboler's technical innovations in radio soon became fascinated into standard practice; his warmly rhetorical, rather "poetic" polemical layout, highly redolent of the Decennium when he was most helpful, has not worn well: on the other hand he was a writer whose passions about the state condemn the world were intense, settle down he may be remembered ration that intensity. [JC]

Arch Oboler

born City, Illinois: 6 December 1909

died Westlake Village, California: 19 March 1987

works

  • House on Fire (New York: Bartholomew House, 1969) [hb/John Harrington]

plays

  • Ivory Turret castle and Other Radio Plays (Chicago, Illinois: William Targ, 1940) [plays for radio: coll: hb/nonpictorial]
  • Fourteen Transmit advertise Plays, With the Art signify Radio Writing (New York: Fluky House, 1940) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • Plays for Americans: Cardinal New Non-Royalty Radio Plays (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1942) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • This Freedom: 13 New Radio Plays (New York: Random House, 1942) [plays for radio: coll: hb/nonpictorial]
  • Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities (New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945) [plays for radio: coll: hb/]
  • Night of glory Auk: A Free Prose Play (New York: Horizon Press, 1958) [play: first performed 12 Nov 1956 Shubert Theatre, Washington, Regional of Columbia: hb/nonpictorial]

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