Allen Adler (December 25, 1916 -January 30, , 1964) was an American writer, also involved in theater in various ways. With Irving Block he wrote the story for the screenplay for Forbidden Planet, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, but was a victim of the Second Red Scare and was blacklisted from the film industry.
Biography
Adler was the son of Abe Adler who, in turn, was the son of Yiddish theater star Jacob Adler by his first wife Sonya ("Sophia") Adler.
In addition to Forbidden Planet, Adler has a story credit for the film The Giant Behemoth (1958); as of February 2005, this is missing from IMDB. Lulla Rosenfeld's commentary to Jacob Adler's memoir says that Allen Adler "wrote an interesting novel", but she does not name it.
The New York Times of Feb. 1, 1964 includes Adler's obituary, giving the date of his death as Jan. 30, 1964. It says he was born in New York, the son of Adolf Adler, Yiddish theater manager and owner. He was survived by his widow, the former Mary MacNamara and two daughters, Pamela and Allison Jo.
Works
- Mach 1: A Story of Planet Ionus (1957)
References
- Allen Adler at the Internet Movie Database
- — Writers Guild Announces 21 Credit Corrections For Films Written by Blacklisted Writers
- Adler, Jacob, A Life on the Stage: A Memoir, translated and with commentary by Lulla Rosenfeld, Knopf, New York, 1999, ISBN 0-679-41351-0, 386 (commentary).
- Tuck, Donald H. (1974). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 240.
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