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Chester Erskine
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Screen Story, Short Story Author Born: November 29, 1905 in Vienna, Austria Death: April 7, 1986 in Beverly Hills, CA Biography:A stage actor by the late '20s, "Chester Erskine" came to New York, where he scored a hit writing, producing, and directing the all-black revue "Harlem" in 1929. He produced and directed several Broadway plays and then went to Hollywood in 1932 and assisted Lewis Milestone on "Rain". He began directing films with the psychological drama "Midnight" in 1934; as a writer/director, his credits include "The Egg and I", the debut film of the characters Ma and Pa Kettle; the mystery "Take One False Step", co-scripted with "Irwin Shaw"; the comedy "A Girl in Every Port", starring "Groucho Marx"; and the Shaw adaptation "Androcles and the Lion". As a writer/producer, Erskine made the "Arthur Miller" adaptation "All My Sons" and the thriller "Witness to Murder" starring Barbara Stanwyck, as well as episodes of television's "Reader's Digest" anthology series. ~ All Movie Guide
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