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Gene Fowler |
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Gene Fowler was an American journalist at the Denver Post,
Denver Republican, Rocky Mountain News, and later
became sports editor of the New York Daily Mirror
and the managing editor of William Randolph Hearst's
American.
Gene was the author of many popular biographies
including, Good Night, Sweet Prince: The Life and Times
of John Barrymore, Father Goose: The Story of Mack
Sennett, The Great Mouthpiece: a life story of William
J. Fallon, Schnozzola: the story of Jimmy Durante,
and Beau James (a biography of New York City mayor
Jimmy Walker). Fowler's screenwriting credits include
Union Depot, Call of the Wild, 1936's White Fang
and Billy the Kid.
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Biographical fast facts |
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Full or original name at birth: Eugene Parrott Devlan
Date and place of birth: the evening of
March 8, 1890, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Date, time, place and cause of death: July 2, 1960,
at approximately 4:00 p.m., Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Marriage
Wife: Agnes Hubbard (m. July 19, 1916 - July 2, 1960) (his death)
Wedding took place at Red Rocks, near Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Children
Sons: Gene Fowler, Jr. (b. May 1917, on Corona Street,
Denver, Colorado - d. May 11, 1998, at 7261 Outpost Cove,
Hollywood Hills, California)
Will Fowler (b. August 29, 1922, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica, New York -
d. April 14, 2004, Providence St. Joseph Medical Center, Burbank, California)
Daughter: Jane Fowler (b. December 13, 1920 - d. January 21, 1993,
Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital,
Woodland Hills, California) *
Parents
Father: Charles Francis Devlan, Jr.
Mother: Dora Wheeler
Burial site: Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, U.S.A.
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Error correction or clarification |
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* Some sources erroneously report that Gene had only
two children. As noted above, he actually had three.
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Sources |
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More than two dozen sources were consulted in preparing
this profile.
The most in-depth of these was the 1962 biography,
The Young Man from Denver, by his son Will Fowler.
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