Background
Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898 in Pueblo, Colorado. She married George DeNormand, who was born on September 22, 1903 in New York and died on December 23, 1976 in California.
Tuchock was born on March 20, 1898 in Pueblo, Colorado. She married George DeNormand, who was born on September 22, 1903 in New York and died on December 23, 1976 in California.
Tuchock attended the University of California at Los Los Angeles
She was credited for writing for over thirty films, and was one of the first women in the 1930s to be credited as a director on a Hollywood film. She retired in 1973 and died in 1985. Tuchock began her career as an advertising copy editors
In 1927, at the age of 30, she entered the silent film industry.
She only had one Silent Film cr which allowed her to become “one of the few women who began her career in the silent era and was able to maintain her career in Hollywood during the early sound years” (Koerner 2013). Tuchock worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. She was one of the few female screenwriters who worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the early 1930s.
Between the 1930s and the 1950s, she drew in thirty-one writing credits, two directing credits, and one producer cartulary-register In the 1950s, she produced, wrote, and directed a short called Road Runners.
Tuchock had many milestones for a woman in the film industry during the early to mid 20th century.
She wrote the adaptation film Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise). Tuchock co-directed and wrote the film Finishing School (film) with George Nichols Junior. She penned the screenplay for “Hallelujah” which was the first black-cast film produced in Hollywood.
She wrote the musical “Youth Will Be Served”.
Tuchock penned the screenplay for the film “The Foxes of Harrow”. She also scripted the original adaptation of the film Little Orphan Annie.
The film was based on the original comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray.
Tuchock was named a charter member of the Screen Writers Guild. Tuchock was named as a lifetime member of the Board of Trustees of the Motion Picture and Television Fund.