page_title: Charles Samuels
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Samuels
caption_attribution_description: photo of books written by Charles Samuels
context_page_description: Charles Samuels was a U.S. journalist, author and novelist best known for his biographies of celebrities, He penned as-told-to autobiographies for Buster Keaton and Ethel Waters which was a best seller. Among his other books were Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard, and The King: A Biography of Clark Gable.
  His book with Boris Morros, My Ten Years as a Counterspy was made into the film, Man on a String, starring Ernest Borgnine. The title of another, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, about Evelyn Nesbit, was used in the 1955 movie. He was the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe award in 1957 with Night Fell on Georgia.
  Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. He was the New York City Editor of Paramount News.
  He lived mostly in New York City and its suburbs and retired in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Samuels's son, Robert C. Samuels, wrote Blue Water White Water and died of Covid-19. His grandson is photographer/filmmaker Charlie Samuels.
context_section_description: Charles Samuels (September 15, 1902 in Brooklyn, New York – April 27, 1982 in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico) was a U.S. journalist, author and novelist best known for his biographies of celebrities, He penned as-told-to autobiographies for Buster Keaton (My Wonderful World of Slapstick) and Ethel Waters (His Eye is on the Sparrow) which was a best seller. Among his other books were Magnificent Rube: The Life and Gaudy Times of Tex Rickard, and The King: A Biography of Clark Gable.
  His book with Boris Morros, My Ten Years as a Counterspy was made into the film, Man on a String (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine. The title of another, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, about Evelyn Nesbit, was used in the 1955 movie. He was the recipient of the Edgar Allan Poe award (now called the Edgar Award) in 1957 with Night Fell on Georgia (written with his wife Louise Samuels).
  Samuels, who wrote thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, also helped write the newspaper columns of Ben Hecht and Billy Rose. He was the New York City Editor of Paramount News.
  He lived mostly in New York City and its suburbs (Hastings-on-Hudson, Nyack, New York and Grand View NY) and retired in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Samuels's son, Robert C. Samuels, wrote Blue Water White Water and died of Covid-19. His grandson is photographer/filmmaker Charlie Samuels.
caption: some books by Charles Samuels
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