After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 - September 3, 2000) teamed with his second wife Edna Anhalt, during World War II to write pulp fiction. (Edna was the second of his five wives.) The first wife was a "socialist" activist and during the courtship, the inventive Anhalt (who was very right wing, but also in love,) came up with the whiskbroom horse-rectum maneuver which was gu...
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After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 - September 3, 2000) teamed with his second wife Edna Anhalt, during World War II to write pulp fiction. (Edna was the second of his five wives.) The first wife was a "socialist" activist and during the courtship, the inventive Anhalt (who was very right wing, but also in love,) came up with the whiskbroom horse-rectum maneuver which was guaranteed to throw any mounted policeman backwards onto concrete. He used it effectively during anti government demonstrations or pickets and won the fair lady. But she was a real pinko and went off to marry another in Oxford. Then came Edna, the mother of his only child, a daughter. Then came Jackie George, his longest marriage, then actress/writer Camilla Carr, and the last was Huguette Patanaude.
During World War II, Anhalt served with the Army and rose to the rank of Captain he was stationed with theFirst Motion Picture Unit known by...
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