{{Short description|American novelist}} {{Infobox person | name = Marvin Borowsky | birth_name = Marvin Sidney Borowsky | birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|09|28}} | birth_place = Atco, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|07|05|1907|09|28}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | resting_place = Hillside Memorial Park | spouse = {{marriage|Maxine Levy|1931}} | children = 2 | occupation = Novelist, screenwriter }}
'''Marvin Borowsky''' (September 28, 1907 – July 5, 1969) was an American novelist and a screenwriter of movies for RKO Studios, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and others.<ref name=":0">Veteran Film Writer Rites Held Today. (1969, July 7). ''Los Angeles Evening Citizen News'', 6. https://www.newspapers.com/paper/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news/25896/?tab=overview</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=University of California: In Memoriam, December 1970 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb629006wb;doc.view=content&chunk.id=div00004&toc.depth=1&brand=oac4&anchor.id=0 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}</ref><ref name=":2">M. Borowsky Dies at 60. (1969, July 6). ''The Los Angeles Times'', 7. https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-los-angeles-times/4312/</ref>
==Early life and career==
Marvin Sidney Borowsky was born on September 28, 1907, in the Atco neighborhood of Waterford Township, New Jersey. His parents were Abraham Borowsky and Rae Borowsky (née Friedman).<ref name=":3">"Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950", ''FamilySearch'' (<nowiki>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VF4F-M98</nowiki> : Sun Mar 10 11:59:28 UTC 2024), Entry for Abraham George Borowsky and Rae Friedman, 21 Nov</ref><ref name=":4">"United States Census, 1910", ''FamilySearch'' (<nowiki>https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKTD-SSW</nowiki> : Sun Mar 10 08:23:32 UTC 2024), Entry for Abraham Borowsky and Rae Borowsky, 1910</ref> During his early years, he grew up in Waterford Township; and later in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":1" /> After finishing his schooling, Borowsky entered as an English major at Lehigh University. However, his passion lay in the arts, specifically the theater. This led to him direct plays during his summer vacations and under his direction, "the Arden Theater developed into a highly successful professional theater."<ref name=":1" />
When he finished his bachelor's degree in 1929, Borowsky went to the Yale School of Drama (since renamed as the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University) and majored in play writing for two years. Then, he moved to New York, where he worked in different jobs throughout the years such as special lightning consultant, play reader and stage manager. In addition, "he wrote and sold two plays".<ref name=":1" /> "While impatiently awaiting their production, he developed an interest in writing for motion pictures, and fed up with the procrastination of New York producers, he and his wife went to Hollywood" in 1940.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" />
==Later career==
The two plays he sold in New York were never produced, but it did lead for him to get his first job at MGM Studios as a screenwriter. In the following years, he wrote around seven screenplays for different studios. Moreover, he also helped other screenwriters solve "their script problems", which led him to the decision of wanting to teach others "the art of screenwriting."<ref name=":1" /> Borowsky first "lectured on play writing" at the University of Southern California and then joined the "UCLA's Theater Arts Department as professor of creating writing" in 1961.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
In addition, Borowsky was "a member of the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America and the Motion Picture Relief Fund" for many years.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Aside from being a screenwriter, he was also a novelist as he wrote an Arthurian novel titled ''The Queen's Knight'' in 1955; and he was a "talented painter" whose art works were exhibited in several museums in California.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /><ref name=":2" /> On 1968, Borowsky took a sabbatical and traveled throughout Europe and Israel. During that period of time, he gathered material for a book he was writing, did interviews and lectured in "at the Tel Aviv Screen Center, and acting as a consultant to Israeli screenwriters."<ref name=":1" />
==Personal life and death== In 1931, Borowsky married Maxine Levy, and they had a daughter and a son.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
Borowsky died on July 5, 1969, in Los Angeles, California after a "two-month illness."<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />
==Works== ===Screenplays===
* ''Free and Easy'' (1941) * ''Reunion in France'' (1942) * ''Escape in the Desert'' (1945) * ''Pride of the Marines'' (1945) * ''Somewhere in the Night'' (1946) * ''Big Jack'' (1949) * ''Gambling House'' (1950)
=== Novels ===
* The Queen's Knight (1955)<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
== References == {{reflist}}
== External links == *{{IMDb name|0097286}}
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