Editing Samuel Fuller (section)

==Early life==
Samuel Michael Fuller was born in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], of Jewish parents, Rebecca (née Baum) and Benjamin Fuller.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://authorscalendar.info/fuller.htm|title = Samuel Fuller}}</ref> His father died in 1923 when Samuel was 11. After immigrating to the United States, the family's surname was changed from Rabinovitch to Fuller, a name possibly inspired by [[Samuel Fuller (Pilgrim)]], a doctor who arrived in America on the ''[[Mayflower]]''.<ref>p.7 Fuller, Samuel. ''A Third Face''. Alfred A Knopf (2002)</ref> In his autobiography, ''A Third Face'' (2002), he says that he did not speak until he was almost five. His first word was "Hammer!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fuller.htm |title=Samuel Fuller |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231224807/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fuller.htm |archive-date=December 31, 2014 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/thirdfacemytaleo00full/page/3/mode/1up | isbn=978-0-375-40165-7 | title=A third face : My tale of writing, fighting, and filmmaking | date=2002 | last1=Fuller | first1=Samuel | last2=Fuller | first2=Christa | last3=Rudes | first3=Jerome | publisher=Alfred A. Knopf }}</ref>

After his father's death, the family moved to New York City, where at the age of 12, he began working as a newspaper copyboy. He became a crime reporter in New York City at age 17, working for the ''[[New York Graphic|New York Evening Graphic]].''  He broke the story of actress [[Jeanne Eagels]]' death.<ref>p.51 Fuller</ref> He wrote [[Pulp magazine|pulp]] novels, including ''[[The Dark Page]]'' (1944; reissued in 2007 with an introduction by [[Wim Wenders]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/44009240|title=Library of Congress LCCN Permalink for 44009240|website=loc.gov|year=1944}}</ref> which was later adapted into the 1952 movie ''[[Scandal Sheet (1952 film)|Scandal Sheet]]''.

Late in life he said, "If only a reporter could get a thousand dollars an hour the way a director does, I'd be in it today".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Severo |first=Richard |date=1997-11-01 |title=Samuel Fuller, Director, Is Dead at 85; A Master of Unsettling Low-Budget Films |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/01/arts/samuel-fuller-director-is-dead-at-85-a-master-of-unsettling-low-budget-films.html |access-date=2023-08-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>