Writing

Fanya Foss

Known for

Writing

Credits

5 titles

Known for

Nightmare in the Sun poster
3.0

A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.

Nightmare in the Sun

1965

The Stork Pays Off poster
6.3

Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.

The Stork Pays Off

1941

Why Girls Leave Home poster
5.7

In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.

Why Girls Leave Home

1945

The Richest Man in Town poster
10.0

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.

The Richest Man in Town

1941

Girls Under 21 poster
4.8

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.

Girls Under 21

1940

Behind the camera

Nightmare in the Sun poster
3.0

A hitchhiker sleeps with a rancher's wife and is hunted by the sheriff for her murder.

Nightmare in the Sun

1965

The Stork Pays Off poster
6.3

Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.

The Stork Pays Off

1941

Why Girls Leave Home poster
5.7

In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.

Why Girls Leave Home

1945

The Richest Man in Town poster
10.0

The conflicting views of two leading citizens in a small town are reconciled when they come across a promoter who is planning to defraud the town. He is reformed by the daughter of one.

The Richest Man in Town

1941

Girls Under 21 poster
4.8

Francis Ryan, living high-and-free-wheeling life as the wife of gangster "Smiley" Ryan, spends some time behind bars as a result of her husband's activities, and, when she gets out, realizes she has been a bad example for her kid-sister, Jennie White, and five of her friends. With the aid of her old boyfriend, she manages to divert them from their juvenile-delinquent path leading to disaster for each.

Girls Under 21

1940