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Overview
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Mini Biography:
Author, playwright, reporter and lyricist ("The September Song", "Lost... more
Trivia:
His papers are housed in the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special ... more
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar.
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(4 articles)
All Quiet On The Western Front – Lew Ayres – d: Lewis Milestone
(From Alternative Film Guide. 28 November 2009, 1:11 AM, PST)
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 September 2009, 12:07 AM, PDT)
(From Alternative Film Guide. 28 November 2009, 1:11 AM, PST)
Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
(From The Hollywood Interview. 9 September 2009, 12:07 AM, PDT)
Filmography
Writer:
- Meet Joe Black (1998) (earlier screenplay) (inspiration)
- The Bad Seed (1985) (TV) (play)
- "Hallmark Hall of Fame" (4 episodes, 1959-1975)
... aka Hallmark Television Playhouse
- Valley Forge (1975) TV episode (play)
- Elizabeth the Queen (1968) TV episode (play "Elizabeth the Queen")
- Barefoot in Athens (1966) TV episode (play)
- Winterset (1959) TV episode (play) - Lost in the Stars (1974) (play)
... aka Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson's Lost in the Stars (Australia: DVD box title) (USA: poster title) - Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) (play)
... aka Anne of a Thousand Days - The Star Wagon (1966) (TV) (play)
- Kötü tohum (1963) (play "The Bad Seed")
... aka The Bad Seed (International: English title) - "Golden Showcase" (1 episode, 1962)
- Saturday's Children (1962) TV episode (play "Saturday's Children") - Ben-Hur (1959) (contributing writer) (uncredited)
... aka Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (USA: alternative title) - Never Steal Anything Small (1959) (play "The Devil's Hornpipe")
- Vertigo (1958) (contributing writer) (uncredited)
... aka 'Vertigo' (USA: poster title)
... aka Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (USA: complete title) - "Playhouse 90" (1 episode, 1957)
- The Star Wagon (1957) TV episode (play) - The Wrong Man (1956) (screenplay) (story)
- "The Alcoa Hour" (1 episode, 1956)
- Key Largo (1956) TV episode (play) - The Bad Seed (1956) (play)
- "Ford Star Jubilee" (1 episode, 1956)
- High Tor (1956) TV episode (writer) - "BBC Sunday-Night Theatre" (1 episode, 1955)
- The Masque of Kings (1955) TV episode (play) - "Shower of Stars" (1 episode, 1954)
... aka Chrysler Shower of Stars
- A Christmas Carol (1954) TV episode (adaptation) (teleplay "A Christmas Carol") - What Price Glory (1952) (play)
- "Celanese Theatre" (2 episodes, 1951-1952)
- Saturday's Children (1952) TV episode (play) (episodes 1.03 and 1.13)
- Winterset (1951) TV episode (play) - "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse" (5 episodes, 1950-1951)
- The Buccaneer (1951) TV episode (play)
- Night Over Taos (1951) TV episode (play)
- Valley Forge (1951) TV episode (play) (episodes 1.07, 1.20, 1.21 and 1.37)
- Mary of Scotland (1951) TV episode (play) (episodes 1.07, 1.20, 1.21 and 1.37)
- Knickerbocker Holiday (1950) TV episode (play) (episodes 1.07, 1.20, 1.21 and 1.37) - "Lux Video Theatre" (1 episode, 1950)
... aka Summer Video Theatre (USA: summer title)
- Saturday's Children (1950) TV episode (play) - "Kraft Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1950)
... aka Kraft Mystery Theatre (USA: new title)
... aka Kraft Theatre (USA: new title)
- Valley Forge (1950) TV episode (play "Valley Forge") - Joan of Arc (1948) (play "Joan of Lorraine") (screenplay)
- Key Largo (1948) (play)
- A la sombra del puente (1948) (play)
- Winterset (1945) (TV) (play)
- The Eve of St. Mark (1944) (play)
... aka Maxwell Anderson's The Eve of St. Mark (USA: complete title) - Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) (play)
- Saturday's Children (1940) (play)
- The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) (play)
... aka Elizabeth and Essex
... aka Elizabeth the Queen (USA: TV title) - Winterset (1936) (play)
- Mary of Scotland (1936) (play)
- So Red the Rose (1935) (writer)
- Maybe It's Love (1935) (play "Saturday's Children")
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) (contributing writer) (uncredited)
- We Live Again (1934) (writer)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934) (screenplay)
- Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932) (story)
... aka Invisible Power (UK) - Rain (1932) (adaptation)
- The Guardsman (1931) (excerpt from play "Elizabeth the Queen") (uncredited)
- Women of All Nations (1931) (characters)
- One Romantic Night (1930) (adaptation)
... aka The Swan (USA: reissue title) - All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) (adaptation & dialogue)
- The Cock-Eyed World (1929) (story)
... aka The Cockeyed World - Saturday's Children (1929) (play)
- What Price Glory (1926) (play)
Soundtrack:
- Bragging Rites: The Carolina-Clemson Rivalry (2003) (lyrics: "September Song")
- My House in Umbria (2003) (TV) (lyrics: "September Song")
... aka La mia casa in Umbria (Italy) - There Goes My Baby (1994) (writer: "I Wonder Why")
... aka The Last Days of Paradise (USA: alternative title) - Texasville (1990) (writer: "September Song")
- John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) (lyrics: "September Song" From the musical play "Knickerbocker Holiday")
... aka John Huston (USA: alternative title) - Radio Days (1987) (lyrics: "September Song" (1944))
- "The Mike Douglas Show" (1 episode, 1970)
- Episode dated 11 September 1970 (1970) TV episode (writer: "September Song") - Judy Garland in Concert (1964) (lyrics: "Lost In the Stars")
- "Toast of the Town" (1 episode, 1963)
... aka The Ed Sullivan Show (USA: new title)
- Episode #17.1 (1963) TV episode (lyrics: "September Song" (uncredited)) - Never Steal Anything Small (1959) (lyrics: "Never Steal Anything Small", "I'm Sorry, I Want a Ferrari", "I Haven't Got a Thing to Wear", "It Takes Love to Make a Home", "Helping Our Friends")
- The Edsel Show (1957) (TV) (lyrics: "September Song" (uncredited))
- "Ford Star Jubilee" (1 episode, 1956)
- High Tor (1956) TV episode (lyrics: "John Barleycorn", "A Little Love, a Little While", "Living One Day at a Time", "Once Upon a Long Ago", "Sad Is the Life of the Sailor's Wife", "When You're in Love") - "The Jack Benny Program" (1 episode, 1954)
... aka The Jack Benny Show (USA: informal title)
... aka The Lucky Strike Program (USA: alternative title)
- Liberace Show (1954) TV episode (writer: "September Song") - I'll Close My Eyes (1947) (lyrics: "September Song")
... aka Community Sing 8658: I'll Close My Eyes (USA: series title) - Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) (lyrics: "September Song", "There's Nowhere to Go But Up", "It Never Was You", "The One Indispensable Man")
Additional Details
Other Works:
Playwright: "Saturday's Children", 1927 (filmed as Saturday's Children (1929), Maybe It's Love (1935), Saturday's Children (1940))
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Publicity Listings:
4 Print Biographies | 1 Magazine Cover Photo
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