Dr. John Haase (August 21, 1923 - August 3, 2006) was a dentist and author, whose most well known novel was adapted into the 1968 Richard Lester film "Petulia", starring George C. Scott and Julie Christie. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 1923 ( MCMXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 8 - Roman Empire General Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Richard Lester (born January 19, 1932) is a British -based Film director famous for his work with The Beatles in the 1960s Petulia ( 1968) is a British Drama film directed by Richard Lester. George Campbell Scott (October 18 1927 - September 22 1999 was an American stage and film Actor, director, and producer. Julie Frances Christie (born April 14, 1941) is a British actress.
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Life
Haase was born in Frankfurt, the only son of a Lutheran father and Jewish mother. The growing threat of Nazi power forced the family to migrate to San Francisco in 1936. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city
He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and then studied at the Dental School of the University of San Francisco. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West He enlisted during World War II, and served in the Army in Texas. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State.
Haase practised in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, with many celebrities, including Conrad Hilton, for clients, for nearly forty years. Conrad Nicholson Hilton Sr ( December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American Hotelier and founder of the Hilton Hotel
He married Jean Rosenblatt in 1948. They had 4 children, but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1975, he wed Janis.
He died in Montecito, of complications arising out of Emphysema. Montecito is a Census-designated place (CDP in Santa Barbara County California. Emphysema is a chronic obstructive Pulmonary disease ( COPD) formerly termed a chronic obstructive Lung disease (COLD
Haase as Author
His first novel, The Young Who Sin, appeared in 1958.
Me and the Arch Kook Petulia takes a searingly satirical look at the America of the 1960s. It is the story of an affair between a middle aged doctor, in the midst of a divorce, and a self described kook who wants to have an affair because she has been married for six months and has not had one yet. Haase was not happy with the adaptation for screen. However the release of Lester's film was greeted with acclaim. The New York Times, commenting in July 2006 on a DVD collection of comedies from the 1960s and 70s, called Petulia the most notable of a group of groundbreaking films from the 60's recently released on DVD.
Erasmus with Freckles features Erasmus Leaf, who nurses a crush for Brigitte Bardot, and his father, an absent minded poet with a distaste for science, who has to deal with the mathematical genius that his son demonstrates. Brigitte Bardot ( (born 28 September 1934 is a French actress, former fashion model, Singer and animal welfare/rights activist
Big Red, a historical novel, described the construction of the Hoover Dam in the early 1930s. Hoover Dam, also sometimes known as Boulder Dam, is a Concrete Arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the
Haase was a prolific travel writer too, with several articles appearing in magazines and newspapers.
He also wrote an episode of the Richard Boone Show on Television in 1963, called The Wall to Wall War. Richard Allen Boone ( June 18 1917 &ndash January 10 1981) was an American Actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable
Bibliography
- The Young Who Sin (1958)
- Road Show (1960)
- The Fun Couple (1961, made into a play of the same name)
- The Sherbert Colours (1963)
- Erasmus with Freckles (1963; made into the film Dear Brigitte, 1965)
- Me and the Arch Kook Petulia (1966; made into the film Petulia, 1968)
- The Noon Balloon to Rangoon (1967)
- The Nuptials (1969)
- Seasons and Moments (1971)
- Big Red (1980)
- San Francisco (1983)
- A Boy's Rite of Passage Out of Nazi Germany (Article in the Los Angeles Times, 1984)
Trivia
- He married Janis aboard a cruise ship in San Pedro, with the band (friends of Haase) Van Halen performing dockside. The Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times) is a daily Newspaper published in Los Angeles California and distributed San Pedro is a beach community within Los Angeles California, USA Van Halen is a Hard rock band formed in in 1972 They enjoyed success from the release of their self titled debut album in 1978
- The first draft was better than the book . . . (the later screenwriter) wrote about a world I'd never known existed, and if it does, I'd strongly suggest he keep it to himself. - Haase writing about the screen adaptation of his novel Me and the Arch Kook Petulia in the Los Angeles Times in 1967
- Janis Joplin's band, Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead appear briefly in Petulia. Janis Lyn Joplin ( January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer songwriter and music arranger from Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the psychedelic music scene The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Adapting a brilliant dentist's charming novel to the screen was like pulling teeth - Dear Brigitte screenwriter Hal Kanter in the Los Angeles Times in 1964
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