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===Personal Life=== |
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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 in 1973 at the age of 75. 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> |
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 in 1973 at the age of 75. 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> |
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===Career=== |
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Wanda Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor. In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the industry. Tuchock only had one silent film credit which allowerd 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 wfpp).<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-Goldyn-Mayer, also known as MGM. She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldyn-Mayer in the early 1930s. (wfpp) Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit (imdb). In the 1950s, she produced, wrote, and directed a short called Road Runners (imdb). |
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Wanda Tuchock
Personal 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. [1] Tuchock retired in 1973 at the age of 75. She died on February 10, 1985 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital of an “undisclosed illness.” [2]
Career
Wanda Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editor. In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the industry. Tuchock only had one silent film credit which allowerd 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 wfpp).[3] Wanda Tuchock worked at Metro-Goldyn-Mayer, also known as MGM. She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldyn-Mayer in the early 1930s. (wfpp) Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer credit (imdb). In the 1950s, she produced, wrote, and directed a short called Road Runners (imdb).
Notes
- ^ "Wanda Tuchock". TCM Turner Classic Movies.
- ^ "Writer, Film producer Wanda Tuchock, 86". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
- ^ Koerner, Michelle. "Wanda Tuchock". Women Film Pioneers Project. Retrieved 4 November 2014.