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Lionel Houser was born on 16 April 1908 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Sky Giant (1938), Cargo to Capetown (1950) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945). He died on 12 November 1949 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer, Producer
- April 16, 1908
- Lionel Houser
- November 12, 1949
Houser, Lionel. Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author. (1908-1949) US screenwriter, film producer and author of the medical fantasy Caress and Farewell ( 1934 ), in which a female surgeon attempts to create a custom lover whose short life will be utterly dedicated to her (see Medicine ). [DRL]
Faithful in My Fashion is a 1946 American romantic comedy film directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Donna Reed, Tom Drake and Edward Everett Horton. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Plot. Jeff (Tom Drake) arrives home to New York City after being away in the Army for several years.
A Weird Yarn; CARESS AND FAREWELL. By Lionel Houser. 287 pp. New York: Julian Messner, Inc. $2.50.
Caress and Farewell. New York: Julian Messner. (1934). First Edition. Bleiler listed fantasy title of a beautiful female surgeon who attempts to create a lover whose brief life would be dedicated to her alone. (early version of The Rocky Horror Show) Houser had a number of screenwriting credits during his career. Endpapers after Rockwell Kent.
Producing Cargo to Capetown was scenarist Lionel Houser. Born Lionel Francis Hauser in New York in 1908, the Stanford-educated writer worked by day as a reporter for The New York World Telegram while writing novels by night.
- Earl Mcevoy, Sam Nelson
- Broderick Crawford
Directed by Richard Thorpe (replacing Edward Buzzell, who became ill and had to bow out of the project), and with a script by Lionel Houser, based on his original story, Three Hearts for Julia went into production on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot on September 4, 1942 and wrapped a brief five weeks later, on October 17th.