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Wanda Tuchock
Wanda Tuchock
Born	March 20, 1898; Pueblo, Colorado
Died	February 10, 1985 (aged 86); Woodland Hills, Los Angeles
Occupation	Screenwriter; director; producer; copywriter;
Nationality	American
Education	University of California at Los Angeles
Spouse	George DeNormand

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Wanda Tuchock (March 20, 1898 – February 10, 1985) was an American advertising copywriter, screenwriter, director, and producer during the early 20th century. She 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.

Early life

Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898, in Pueblo, Colorado.^[1] She attended the University of California at Los Angeles.^[1]

Career

Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor. In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the silent film industry. She 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".^[2] She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the early 1930s.^[2] At RKO Radio Pictures she became one of only a small number of women in the 1930s, next to Dorothy Arzner and Dorothy Davenport, to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film.^[2] Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit.^[3] In the 1950s, Tuchock was credited as a producer, writer, and director of a short called Road Runners.^[3]

In 1929 Tuchock wrote Hallelujah,^[1] the first black-cast film produced by a major studio. In 1931 she wrote the adaptation for the film Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise).^[1] In 1932 she did the original adaptation for the film Little Orphan Annie,^[1] based on the comic strip. In 1934 Tuchock co-directed and wrote the film Finishing School with George Nichols Jr.^[1] In 1940 she wrote the musical Youth Will Be Served.^[1] In 1947 she wrote the screenplay for The Foxes of Harrow.^[1]

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

Achievements

Apart from Dorothy Arzner and Dorothy Davenport, Tuchock was the only woman to receive directing credit on a Hollywood studio film in the 1930s. She wrote and co-directed the film Finishing School with George Nicholls, Jr., and directed Ready For Love.^[4] She also achieved recognition during the early 20th century as a female screenwriter at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^[2] Tuchock was a charter member of the Screen Writers Guild.^[2] She was named a lifetime member of the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.^[3]

Personal life

She 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.^[1] Tuchock retired at the age of 75 in 1973. She 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.^[5]

Filmography

Tuchock wrote for over 30 films,^[6]^[3] directed three,^[1]^[3] and produced one.^[2]^[3]

Writer

Show People 1928
Hallelujah 1929
Not So Dumb 1930
Billy The Kid 1930
Sporting Blood 1931
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) 1931
The Champ 1931 (additional dialogue)
Letty Lynton 1932 (adaptation of the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes)
New Morals for Old 1932 (additional dialogue)
Bird of Paradise 1932
Little Orphan Annie 1932
No Other Woman 1933
Bed of Roses 1933
Little Women 1933
Finishing School 1934
Ready For Love 1934
Grand Old Girl 1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy 1935
Hawaii Calls 1938
The Llano Kid 1939
Youth Will Be Served 1940
For Beauty's Sake 1941
This Is the Life 1944
Ladies of Washington 1944
Sunday Dinner for a Soldier 1944
Nob Hill 1945
Within These Walls 1945
The Homestretch 1947
The Foxes of Harrow 1947
Road Runners 1952
The Living Swamp 1955
Man Without a Gun 1959 (TV series, 1 episode, "Daughter of the Dragon")

Director

Finishing School 1934
Ready For Love 1934
Road Runners 1952

Producer

Road Runners 1952

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Maltin, Leonard (2010), Overview for Wanda Tuchock, Turner Classic Movies, retrieved 12 June 2016
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Koerner, Michelle (27 September 2013), "Wanda Tuchock", in Jane Gaines; Radha Vatsal; Monica Dall’Asta (eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Wanda Tuchock". IMDb. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
^ Staff, Hollywood.com (2014-05-23). "Wanda Tuchock | Biography and Filmography | 1898". Retrieved 2016-10-03.
^ "Writer, Film Producer Wanda Tuchock, 86". Chicago Tribune. United Press International. 13 February 1985.
^ Maltin, Leonard (2010), Filmography for Wanda Tuchock, Turner Classic Movies, retrieved 12 June 2016

External links

Wanda Tuchock at IMDb
Wanda Tuchock at the Women Film Pioneers Project

[Maltin2010a-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Maltin, Leonard (2010), Overview for Wanda Tuchock, Turner Classic Movies, retrieved 12 June 2016

[Koerner2013-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Koerner, Michelle (27 September 2013), "Wanda Tuchock", in Jane Gaines; Radha Vatsal; Monica Dall’Asta (eds.), Women Film Pioneers Project, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries

[IMDb-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Wanda Tuchock". IMDb. Retrieved 4 November 2014.

[4] Staff, Hollywood.com (2014-05-23). "Wanda Tuchock | Biography and Filmography | 1898". Retrieved 2016-10-03.

[UPIobit-5] "Writer, Film Producer Wanda Tuchock, 86". Chicago Tribune. United Press International. 13 February 1985.

[Maltin2010b-6] Maltin, Leonard (2010), Filmography for Wanda Tuchock, Turner Classic Movies, retrieved 12 June 2016

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-Wanda Tuchock was an advertising copywriter, screenwriter, director, and producer during the 20th century.  She has writing credits on over thirty films and was one of the first women in the 1930s to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film.  After a long career from the early 1930s she retired in 1975.
+'''Wanda Tuchock''' (March 20, 1898 – February 10, 1985) was an American advertising [[copywriter]], [[screenwriter]], [[Film director|director]], and [[Film producer|producer]] during the early 20th century. She 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.
-==Personal Life==
+==Early life==
-Wanda Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898 in Pueblo, Colorado.  Tuchock attended the University of California at Los Angeles.  She married George DeNormand, who was born on September 22, 1903 in New York and died on December 23, 1976 in California.  He was an actor and director. <ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/194756%7C153948/Wanda-Tuchock/filmography.html|website=TCM Turner Classic Movies}}</ref> Tuchock retired at the age of 75 in 1973.  She died on February 10, 1985 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital of an “undisclosed illness.” <ref>{{cite web|title=Writer, Film producer Wanda Tuchock, 86|url=http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-02-13/news/8501090204_1_television-hospital-home-stretch-writer-and-producer|website=Chicago Tribune|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
+Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898, in [[Pueblo, Colorado]].<ref name=Maltin2010a>{{citation |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |title=Overview for Wanda Tuchock |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/194756%7C153948/Wanda-Tuchock/ |date=2010 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref> She attended the [[University of California]] at [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=Maltin2010a />
 ==Career==
-Wanda Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor.  In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the silent film industry.  Tuchock only had one [[Silent Film]] credit which allowed her to become “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” (Koerner 2013).<ref>{{cite web|last1=Koerner|first1=Michelle|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/#bibliography|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>  Wanda Tuchock worked at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], also known as MGM.   She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in the early 1930s. <ref>{{cite web|last1=Koerner|first1=Michelle|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/#bibliography|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>   Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>  In the 1950s, she produced, wrote, and directed a short called ''Road Runners''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
+Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor. In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the [[silent film]] industry. She 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".<ref name=Koerner2013>{{citation |last1=Koerner |first1=Michelle |chapter=Wanda Tuchock |chapter-url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/ |title=Women Film Pioneers Project |url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/ |date=27 September 2013 |editor1=Jane Gaines |editor2=Radha Vatsal |editor3=Monica Dall’Asta |publisher=Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University Libraries}}</ref> She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in the early 1930s.<ref name=Koerner2013 /> At [[RKO|RKO Radio Pictures]] she became one of only a small number of women in the 1930s, next to [[Dorothy Arzner]] and [[Dorothy Davenport]], to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film.<ref name=Koerner2013 /> Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit.<ref name=IMDb>{{cite web |title=Wanda Tuchock |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/ |website=IMDb |access-date=4 November 2014}}</ref>  In the 1950s, Tuchock was credited as a producer, writer, and director of a short called ''Road Runners''.<ref name=IMDb />
+In 1929 Tuchock wrote ''[[Hallelujah (film)|Hallelujah]]'',<ref name=Maltin2010a /> the first black-cast film produced by a major studio. In 1931 she wrote the adaptation for the film ''[[Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)]].''<ref name=Maltin2010a /> In 1932 she did the original adaptation for the film ''[[Little Orphan Annie (1932 film)|Little Orphan Annie]]'',<ref name=Maltin2010a /> based on the [[Little Orphan Annie|comic strip]]. In 1934 Tuchock co-directed and wrote the film ''[[Finishing School (1934 film)|Finishing School]]'' with George Nichols Jr.<ref name=Maltin2010a /> In 1940 she wrote the musical ''[[Youth Will Be Served]]''.<ref name=Maltin2010a />  In 1947 she wrote the screenplay for ''[[The Foxes of Harrow]]''.<ref name=Maltin2010a />
-==Milestones==
-Tuchock had many milestones for a woman in the film industry during the early to mid 20th century.  She wrote the adaptation film "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise).'' Tuchock co-directed and wrote the film [[Finishing School]] with George Nichols Jr.. <ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/196194/wanda-tuchock#educations|website=Hollywood.com|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> She penned the screenplay for ''“Hallelujah”'' which was the first black-cast film produced in Hollywood. <ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> She wrote the musical ''“Youth Will Be Served”''.  Tuchock penned the screenplay for the film ''“The Foxes of Harrow”''.  She also scripted the original adaptation of the film [[Little Orphan Annie]].   The film was based on the original comic strip [[Little Orphan Annie]] by [[Harold Gray]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/196194/wanda-tuchock#educations|website=Hollywood.com|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
+She retired in 1973 and died in 1985 at the age of 86.
-==Achievements==
-Wanda Tuchock achieved more in the 20th century than most women in the film industry did during that period.  Apart from Dorothy Arzner, Tuchock was the only woman to receive directing credit on a Hollywood studio film in the 1930s.  This was on the film [[Finishing School]] with co-director George Nichols Jr.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Koerner|first1=Michelle|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/#bibliography|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> Another achievement that was rare for a woman in the film industry during the early 20th century was to be a female screenwriter who worked at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]]. <ref>{{cite web|last1=Koerner|first1=Michelle|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/#bibliography|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> Tuchock was named a charter member of the Screen Writers Guild.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Koerner|first1=Michelle|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/#bibliography|website=Women Film Pioneers Project|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> The [[Screen Writers Guild]] is “an organization of Hollywood screenplay authors that formed as a union in 1933”.<ref>{{cite web|title=Screen Writers Guild|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Writers_Guild|website=Wikipedia|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref> In addition, Tuchock was also named as a lifetime member of the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
+===Achievements===
+Apart from Dorothy Arzner and Dorothy Davenport, Tuchock was the only woman to receive directing credit on a Hollywood studio film in the 1930s.  She wrote and co-directed the film ''Finishing School'' with [[George Nicholls, Jr.]], and directed ''[[Ready for Love (1934 film)|Ready For Love]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/wanda-tuchock-57301092/|title=Wanda Tuchock {{!}} Biography and Filmography {{!}} 1898|last=Staff|first=Hollywood.com|date=2014-05-23|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-03}}</ref> She also achieved recognition during the early 20th century as a female screenwriter at [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]].<ref name="Koerner2013" /> Tuchock was a charter member of the [[Screen Writers Guild]].<ref name="Koerner2013" /> She was named a lifetime member of the Board of [[Trustees]] of the [[Motion Picture and Television Fund]].<ref name="IMDb" />
+== Personal life ==
+She married the actor and director [[George DeNormand]], who was born on September 22, 1903, in [[New York (state)|New York]] and died on December 23, 1976, in California.<ref name="Maltin2010a" /> Tuchock retired at the age of 75 in 1973. She 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.<ref name="UPIobit">{{cite news|date=13 February 1985|title=Writer, Film Producer Wanda Tuchock, 86|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|agency=United Press International|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1985/02/13/writer-film-producer-wanda-tuchock-86/}}</ref>
 ==Filmography==
+Tuchock wrote for over 30 films,<ref name=Maltin2010b>{{citation |last=Maltin |first=Leonard |title=Filmography for Wanda Tuchock |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/194756%7C153948/Wanda-Tuchock/filmography.html |date=2010 |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref><ref name=IMDb /> directed three,<ref name=Maltin2010a /><ref name=IMDb /> and produced one.<ref name=Koerner2013 /><ref name=IMDb />
 ===Writer===
-* ''Show People'' 1928
+* ''[[Show People]]'' 1928
-* ''Hallelujiah'' 1929
+* ''[[Hallelujah (film)|Hallelujah]]'' 1929
-* ''Not So Dumb'' 1930
+* ''[[Not So Dumb]]'' 1930
-* ''Billy The Kid'' 1930
+* ''[[Billy the Kid (1930 film)|Billy The Kid]]'' 1930
-* ''Sporting Blood'' 1931
+* ''[[Sporting Blood (1931 film)|Sporting Blood]]'' 1931
-* ''Susan Lenox: Her Rise and Fall'' 1931
+* ''[[Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)]]'' 1931
-* ''The Champ'' 1931 Additional Dialogue
+* ''[[The Champ (1931 film)|The Champ]]'' 1931 (additional dialogue)
-* ''Letty Lynton'' 1932 Adaptation of the Marie Belloc Lowndes novel
+* ''[[Letty Lynton]]'' 1932 (adaptation of the novel by Marie Belloc Lowndes)
-* ''New Morals for Old'' 1932 Additional Dialogue
+* ''[[New Morals for Old]]'' 1932 (additional dialogue)
-* ''Birds of Paradise'' 1932 screenplay
+* ''[[Bird of Paradise (1932 film)|Bird of Paradise]]'' 1932
-* ''Little Orphan Annie'' 1932
+* [[Little Orphan Annie (1932 film)|''Little Orphan Annie'']] 1932
-* ''No Other Woman'' 1933
+* ''[[No Other Woman (1933 film)|No Other Woman]]'' 1933
-* ''Bed of Roses'' 1933 by
+* ''[[Bed of Roses (1933 film)|Bed of Roses]]'' 1933
-* ''Little Women'' contributing writer
+* ''[[Little Women (1933 film)|Little Women]]'' 1933
-* ''Finishing School'' 1934
+* ''[[Finishing School (1934 film)|Finishing School]]'' 1934
+* ''[[Ready for Love (1934 film)|Ready For Love]]'' 1934
-* ''Grand Old Girl'' 1935 contributor to screenplay
-* ''O'Shaughnessy's Boy'' 1935 screenplay
+* ''[[Grand Old Girl]]'' 1935
+* ''[[O'Shaughnessy's Boy]]'' 1935
-* ''Hawaii Calls'' 1938 screenplay
+* ''[[Hawaii Calls]]'' 1938
-* ''The Llano Kid'' 1939 screenplay
-* ''Youth Will Be Served'' 1940
+* ''[[The Llano Kid]]'' 1939
-* ''For Beauty's Sake'' 1941
+* ''[[Youth Will Be Served]]'' 1940
-* ''This is the Life'' 1944
+* ''[[For Beauty's Sake]]'' 1941
-* ''Ladies of Washington'' 1944
+* ''[[This Is the Life (1944 film)|This Is the Life]]'' 1944
-* ''Sunday Dinner for a Soldier'' 1944
+* ''[[Ladies of Washington]]'' 1944
+* ''[[Sunday Dinner for a Soldier]]'' 1944
-* ''Nob Hill'' 1945
-* ''Within These Walls'' 1945
+* ''[[Nob Hill (film)|Nob Hill]]'' 1945
+* ''[[Within These Walls (film)|Within These Walls]]'' 1945
-* ''The Homestretch'' 1947
-* ''The Foxes of Harrow'' 1947
+* ''[[The Homestretch]]'' 1947
+* ''[[The Foxes of Harrow]]'' 1947
-* ''Road Runners'' 1952 short
+* ''Road Runners'' 1952
-* ''The Living Swamp'' 1955 short documentary
-* ''Man Without a Gun'' 1959 Tv series, 1 episode Daughter of the Dragon
+* ''The Living Swamp'' 1955
+* ''[[Man Without a Gun]]'' 1959 (TV series, 1 episode, "Daughter of the Dragon")
-<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
 ===Director===
+* ''[[Finishing School (1934 film)|Finishing School]]'' 1934
-* ''Road Runners''
+* ''[[Ready for Love (1934 film)|Ready For Love]]'' 1934
-* ''Finishing School''
+* ''Road Runners'' 1952
-<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
 ===Producer===
-* ''Road Runners''
+* ''Road Runners'' 1952
-<ref>{{cite web|title=Wanda Tuchock|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0875746/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|website=IMDb|accessdate=4 November 2014}}</ref>
-==Notes==
+== References ==
+{{Reflist}}
+==External links==
+* {{IMDb name | 0875746 }}
+* [https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-wanda-tuchock/ Wanda Tuchock] at the Women Film Pioneers Project
+{{authority control}}
+{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuchock, Wanda}}
+[[Category:American women screenwriters]]
+[[Category:1898 births]]
+[[Category:1985 deaths]]
+[[Category:Women film pioneers]]
+[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
+[[Category:20th-century American screenwriters]]

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