From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Russell Rouse 20 November 1913 2 October 1987 was an American screenwriter director and producer who is noted for the offbeat creativity and originality of his screenplays and for film noir movies and television episodes produced in the 1950s Rouse was the son of film pioneer Edwin Russell His first employment in films was in the prop department at Paramount Studios where he began writing screenplays His play Yokel Boy was filmed in 1942 and became his first film writing credit Rouse has 18 credits as a screenwriter between 1942 and 1988 Commencing with his third writing credit The Town Went Wild 1944 Rouse cowrote many stories and scripts with Clarence Greene The partners are noted for their work on a series of six film noir movies commencing with DOA directed by Rudolph Maté1950 With the second film in the series The Well 1951 they also took on directing and producing Rouse as director and Greene as producer This collaboration continued through the noir series The Thief 1952 Wicked Woman 1953 New York Confidential 1955 and House of Numbers 1957 and beyond In the late 1950s Greene and Rouse formed a production company GreeneRouse Productions which created the film noir television series Tightrope that ran for one season 195960 as well as two films in the 1960s In addition to their noir work Rouse and Greene produced two westerns The Fastest Gun Alive 1956 and Thunder in the Sun 1959 The 1959 film Pillow Talk was based on their story Their careers drew to a close shortly after the unsuccessful film The Oscar 1966 Rouse and Greene were nominated for the Academy Award for writing The Well 1951 They received the Academy Award for Pillow Talk 1959 with Maurice Richlin and Stanley Shapiro DOA has been preserved in the National Film Registry the film has been remade several times and Rouse was credited as a writer on two Color Me Dead 1969 and DOA 1988 Rouses son Christopher Rouse is a noted film editor Description above from the Wikipedia article Russell Rouse licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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