Aben Kandel was a versatile playwright, screenwriter and novelist who penned a variety of material ranging from high-toned comedies to vulgar exploitation. Several of his novels have been adapted into feature films including Vaudeville (1927), Black Sun (1929) and City for Conquest (1936). He also had one of his Broadway productions Hot Money made into a feature in 1935. Kandel first broke into screenwriting while helping to adapt the play Dinner at Eight into a film along with three other noted scenarists including Herman Mankiewicz. In 1935 he wrote his own screenplays Manhattan Moon and She Gets Her Man. In the late 1950s, Kandel began penning exploitation scripts for producer Herman Cohen. Among those are two Joan Crawford horror features, Berserk! (1963) and Trog(1970).
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Craze
Screenwriter |
1974 | |||
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Trog
Screenwriter |
1970 | |||
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Berserk!
Screenwriter |
1967 | |||
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The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: The Fiddlesticks Affair
Screen Story |
1965 | |||
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Black Zoo
Screenwriter |
1963 | |||
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Konga
Screenwriter |
1961 | |||
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The Untouchables: The Underworld Bank
Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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The Headless Ghost
Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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How to Make a Monster
Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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Singing in the Dark
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Timetable
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Kid Monk Baroni
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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The Fighter
Screenwriter |
1952 | |||
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The Big City
Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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The Iron Major
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Three Russian Girls
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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What's Buzzin' Cousin?
Short Story Author |
1943 | |||
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City for Conquest
Book Author |
1940 | |||
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Rio
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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They Won't Forget
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Thunder in the City
Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Come Closer, Folks
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Hot Money
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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More Than a Secretary
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Manhattan Moon
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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She Gets Her Man
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Sing and Like It
Short Story Author |
1934 | |||
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High Pressure
Play Author |
1932 |

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