Biography
4 April 1913, New York City, New York, USA, d. 6 October 1998, New York City, New York, USA. Starting in 1930, some of Weideman’s short stories were published, leading to the publication in 1937 of his novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale. This depicted life among Jewish immigrants in New York City in the early twentieth century, and became a bestseller. Weidman’s 22 novels and collections of short stories include a sequel to his debut novel, What’s In It For Me?, The Enemy Camp, The Sound Of Bow Bells, Fourth Street East, Before You Go (a novel about World War II), and I’ll Never Go There Any More. The latter was filmed in 1949 as House Of Strangers and in 1954 as a western, Broken Lance, both with screenplays by Philip Yordan. Weidman also wrote screenplays including The Damned Don’t Cry (1950, with Harold Medford), The Eddie Cantor Story (1953, with Ted Sherdeman and Sidney Skolsky), and Slander (1956). In the...
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