Biography
American screenwriter Gene Towne started out in 1928, composing subtitles for silent films. Surviving the switchover to talkies, Towne penned screenplays for such movie factories as Warner Bros. and Paramount. From 1937 to 1939, he was most closely associated with independent producer
Walter Wanger, collaborating on such films as
Stand-In (1937),
History Is Made at Night (1937),
You Only Live Once (1938), and
Eternally Yours (1939). Towne briefly worked as a producer in 1940, turning out a pair of literary adaptations,
Little Men and
Tom Brown's School Days. Gene Towne's final film credit was the 1954 cinemazation of
Phil Silvers' Broadway hit Top Banana. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide