Biography
Eugene Vale (11 April 1916 β 2 May 1997) was a best-selling American novelist. He was also a screenwriter, a playwright, and the author of an influential volume on screenwriting. Vale was born in Switzerland, but worked in Paris during the 1930s. He moved to the United States after the outbreak of World War II. Vale worked in Hollywood and also as a lecturer on film and television writing at the University of Southern California. In Joseph McBride's biography of Frank Capra, Vale is quoted as saying that he wrote much of Capra's 1971 autobiography The Name Above the Title ("I'm responsible for the book").
In 1997, Vale died at home in Los Angeles at age 81.
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Birthday1916-04-11
Deathday1997-05-02 (81 years old)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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