Charles Yale Harrison "New Masses" communist literary magazine in New York City while under editor-in-chief Walt Carmon. Harrison's last novel, "Nobody's Fool", was published in 1948. Harrison married three times; he was widowed in 1931, later remarried and divorced his second wife, and was survived by his third wife at his death. He was an uncle of novelist Judith Rossner, author of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". Suffering from the heart condition that inspired his self-help memoir, he died in 1954. Columbia University has an archive of Harrison's papers, which include correspondence with: Whittaker Chambers, Clarence Darrow, Ruby Darrow, John Dos Passos, Max Eastman,
Days of Heaven would be, he should get it. And I'm so happy now — particularly since he is no longer with us — that that happened. Following the completion of principal photography, the editing process took more than two years to complete. Malick had a difficult time shaping the film and getting the pieces to go together. Schneider reportedly showed some footage to director Richard Brooks, who was considering Gere for a role in "Looking for Mr. Goodbar". According to Schneider, the editing for "Days of Heaven" took so long that "Brooks cast Gere, shot, edited and released ["Looking for Mr. Goodbar"]