John Fante is a screenwriter.
Jeanne Eagels ( also titled The Jeanne Eagels Story ) is a 1957 American biographical film loosely based on the life of stage star Jeanne Eagels . Distributed by Columbia Pictures , the film was produced and directed by George Sidney from a screenplay by John Fante , Daniel Fuchs and Sonya Levien , based on a story by Fuchs . John Fante . His screen credits include , most notably , Full of Life ( 1956 ) , based on his 1952 novel by that name , Jeanne Eagels ( 1957 ) , and the 1962 films Walk on the Wild Side and The Reluctant Saint . The Reluctant Saint is a 1962 film which tells a somewhat fictionalized version of the story of Joseph of Cupertino , a 17th-century Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church . The movie was written by John Fante and Joseph Petracca and directed by Edward Dmytryk . Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 film directed by Edward Dmytryk , adapted from the 1956 novel A Walk on the Wild Side by American author Nelson Algren . The film had a star-studded cast , including Laurence Harvey , Capucine , Jane Fonda , Anne Baxter , and Barbara Stanwyck , and was scripted by John Fante .