1920s

• 1927/1928 Underworld
  Underworld (1927 film)
  Underworld is a 1927 silent crime film directed by Josef von Sternberg.-Plot:Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.-Cast:* George Bancroft as "Bull" Weed* Evelyn Brent as "Feathers"...
  
  - Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of...
  
  
  • The Last Command
    The Last Command (film)
    The Last Command is a 1928 silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg, and written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Biró. Star Emil Jannings won the very first Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his performances in this film and The Way of All...
    
    - Lajos Biró
    Lajos Biró
    Lajos Bíró was a Hungarian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by...
    
    
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1930s

• 1929/1930 None given
• 1930/1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders
  John Monk Saunders
  John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter and film director.-Early life and career:...
  
  
  • Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
  • Laughter
    Laughter (film)
    Laughter is a 1930 film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and starring Fredric March, Nancy Carroll and Frank Morgan.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story.-Plot:...
    
    - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty
    Douglas Z. Doty
    Douglas Z. Doty was an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for 63 films between 1920 and 1938, the last one being Always Goodbye released in 1938, three years after his death....
    
    , Donald Stewart
    Donald Ogden Stewart
    Donald Ogden Stewart was an American author and screenwriter.-Life:His hometown was Columbus, Ohio. He graduated from Yale University, where he became a brother to the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity , in 1916 and was in the Naval Reserves in World War I.After the war he started to write and found...
    
    
  • The Public Enemy
    The Public Enemy
    The Public Enemy is a 1931 American Pre-Code crime film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. The film relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America...
    
    - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
  • Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard
    Lucien Hubbard
    Lucien Hubbard was a film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for producing Wings, for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Lucien produced and or wrote ninety-two films over the course of his career...
    
    , Joseph Jackson
• 1931/1932 The Champ
  The Champ
  The Champ is a 1931 American film written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor. The movie stars Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper , and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son.The...
  
  - Frances Marion
  Frances Marion
  Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:...
  
  
  • Lady and Gent
    Lady and Gent
    -Cast:* George Bancroft - Stag Bailey* Wynne Gibson - Puff Rogers* Charles Starrett - Ted Streaver* James Gleason - Pin Streaver* John Wayne - Buzz Kinney* Morgan Wallace - Cash Enright* James Crane - McSweeley* William Halligan - Doc Hayes...
    
    - Grover Jones
    Grover Jones
    Grover Jones was an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote more than 104 films between 1920 and his death...
    
    , William Slavens McNutt
    William Slavens McNutt
    William Slavens McNutt , was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 28 films between 1922 and 1939. He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions. At the 1932 awards he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for Lady and Gent...
    
    
  • Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
    Lucien Hubbard
    Lucien Hubbard was a film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for producing Wings, for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Lucien produced and or wrote ninety-two films over the course of his career...
    
    
  • What Price Hollywood?
    What Price Hollywood?
    What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns.-Plot:...
    
    - Adela St. John, Jane Murfin
    Jane Murfin
    Jane Murfin was an American playwright and screenwriter.Born in Quincy, Michigan, Murfin began her career with the play Lilac Time, which she co-wrote with Jane Cowl. The Broadway production opened on February 6, 1917 and ran for 176 performances...
    
    
• 1932/1933 One Way Passage
  One Way Passage
  One Way Passage is a romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros.It was remade in 1940 as Til We Meet Again, featuring Merle Oberon and George Brent.-Plot:...
  
  - Robert Lord
  Robert Lord
  Robert Lord was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage...
  
  
  • The Prizefighter and the Lady
    The Prizefighter and the Lady
    The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 black-and-white MGM crime romance comedy starring Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, and Walter Huston. It was the film debut for professional boxers Baer and Carnera. Carnera was the world heavyweight boxing champion at the time of the film's...
    
    - Frances Marion
    Frances Marion
    Frances Marion was an American journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos.-Career:...
    
    
  • Rasputin and the Empress
    Rasputin and the Empress
    Rasputin and the Empress is a 1932 film about Imperial Russia starring the Barrymore siblings—John , Ethel , and Lionel Barrymore . It is the only film in which all three appeared together...
    
    - Charles MacArthur
    Charles MacArthur
    Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright and screenwriter.-Biography:Charles MacArthur was the second youngest of seven children born to stern evangelist William Telfer MacArthur and Georgiana Welsted MacArthur. He early developed a passion for reading...
    
    
• 1934 Manhattan Melodrama
  Manhattan Melodrama
  Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 crime melodrama film, produced by MGM, directed by W. S. Van Dyke, and starring Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy...
  
  - Arthur Caesar
  Arthur Caesar
  Arthur Caesar was a screenwriter. Romanian by birth, and brother of the songwriter Irving Caesar, Caesar first started writing Hollywood movies in 1924. Most of his movies were in the B-movie category...
  
  
  • Hide Out
    Hide-Out
    Hide-Out is a 1934 comedy film directed by W. S. Van Dyke and starring Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan. It also features a young Mickey Rooney.- Plot :...
    
    - Mauri Grashin
  • The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
    Norman Krasna
    Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood...
    
    
• 1935 The Scoundrel
  The Scoundrel
  The Scoundrel is a drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, and Lionel Stander. It was Coward's film debut, aside from a bit role in a silent film...
  
  - Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of...
  
  , Charles MacArthur
  Charles MacArthur
  Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright and screenwriter.-Biography:Charles MacArthur was the second youngest of seven children born to stern evangelist William Telfer MacArthur and Georgiana Welsted MacArthur. He early developed a passion for reading...
  
  
  • Broadway Melody of 1936
    Broadway Melody of 1936
    Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical released by MGM in 1935. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929, although, beyond the title and some music, there is no story connection with the earlier film.The film was written by Harry W. Conn, Moss...
    
    - Moss Hart
    Moss Hart
    Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.-Early years:...
    
    
  • The Gay Deception
    The Gay Deception
    The Gay Deception is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Francis Lederer and Frances Dee. Writers Stephen Morehouse Avery and Don Hartman were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.-Plot:...
    
    - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
  • Write in Candidate: G Men
    G Men
    G Men is a 1935 Warner Bros. crime film starring James Cagney and Ann Dvorak. It also marked Lloyd Nolan's film debut. According to Variety Magazine, it was one of the top-grossing films of 1935....
    
    - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck
    Darryl F. Zanuck
    Darryl Francis Zanuck was an American producer, writer, actor, director and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors...
    
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• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 American biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the renowned scientist. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
  
  - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
  • Fury
    Fury (1936 film)
    Fury is a 1936 American drama film which tells the story of an innocent man who narrowly escapes being lynched and the revenge he seeks. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy, Sylvia Sidney and Bruce Cabot and features Walter Abel, Edward...
    
    - Norman Krasna
    Norman Krasna
    Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood...
    
    
  • The Great Ziegfeld
    The Great Ziegfeld
    The Great Ziegfeld is a 1936 musical film produced by MGM. A fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions. The film includes original music by Walter Donaldson and Irving Berlin...
    
    - William McGuire
    William Anthony McGuire
    William Anthony McGuire was a playwright, theatre director, and producer and an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter. He won an Oscar for the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld....
    
    
  • San Francisco
    San Francisco (film)
    San Francisco is a 1936 musical-drama directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy. The then very popular singing of MacDonald helped make this film...
    
    - Robert Hopkins
    Robert Hopkins (screenwriter)
    Robert E. Hopkins was a screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the 1936 film San Francisco.-External links:...
    
    
  • Three Smart Girls
    Three Smart Girls
    Three Smart Girls is a 1936 musical comedy film. The Craig sisters, played by Barbara Read, Nan Grey and Deanna Durbin in her first feature film role, travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying....
    
    - Adele Commandini
• 1937 A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1937 film)
  A Star Is Born is a 1937 Technicolor romantic drama film produced by David O. Selznick and directed by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell. It stars Janet Gaynor as an aspiring Hollywood actress, and Fredric March as an aging movie star who...
  
  - Robert Carson
  Robert Carson (writer)
  Robert Carson was an American film and television screenwriter, novelist, and short story writer, who won an Academy Award in 1938 for his screenplay of A Star Is Born. He was married to Mary Jane Irving, a former child actress.-Film screenwriting credits:*A Star Is Born, 1937...
  
  , William Wellman
  William A. Wellman
  William Augustus Wellman was an American film director. Although Wellman began his film career as an actor, he worked on over 80 films, as director, producer and consultant but most often as a director, notable for his work in crime, adventure and action genre films, often focusing on aviation...
  
  
  • Black Legion
    Black Legion (film)
    Black Legion is a 1937 melodrama film, directed by Archie Mayo, with a script by Abem Finkel and William Wister Haines based on an original story by producer Robert Lord. The film stars Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O'Brien-Moore and Ann Sheridan and is a fictionalized story about the...
    
    - Robert Lord
    Robert Lord
    Robert Lord was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage...
    
    
  • In Old Chicago
    In Old Chicago
    In Old Chicago is a 1937 American drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys." The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary, the owner of...
    
    - Niven Busch
    Niven Busch
    Niven Busch was an American novelist and screenwriter of movies such as the acclaimed The Postman Always Rings Twice. His novels included Duel In the Sun and California Street...
    
    
  • The Life of Emile Zola
    The Life of Emile Zola
    The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola. Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus...
    
    - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
  • One Hundred Men and a Girl
    One Hundred Men and a Girl
    One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kräly and directed by Henry Koster...
    
    - Hans Kraly
• 1938 Boys Town
  Boys Town (1938 film)
  Boys Town is a 1938 biographical drama film based on Father Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Boys Town". It stars Spencer Tracy as Father Edward J...
  
  - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
  Dore Schary
  Isadore "Dore" Schary was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright who became head of production at MGM and eventually president of the studio...
  
  
  • Alexander's Ragtime Band
    Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
    Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film released by Twentieth Century Fox that takes its name from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in Ragtime instead of in "serious" music...
    
    - Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
    
    
  • Angels with Dirty Faces
    Angels with Dirty Faces
    Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft...
    
    - Rowland Brown
  • Blockade
    Blockade (1938 film)
    Blockade is a 1938 American drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda and Leo Carrillo. During the Spanish Civil War a farmer takes up arms to fight for the Republican side.-Cast:* Madeleine Carroll - Norma...
    
    - John Howard Lawson
    John Howard Lawson
    John Howard Lawson was an American writer. He was head of the Hollywood division of the Communist Party USA. He was also the cell's cultural manager, and answered directly to V.J. Jerome, the Party's New York-based cultural chief...
    
    
  • Mad About Music
    Mad About Music
    Mad About Music is a 1938 musical film about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him...
    
    - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
    Frederick Kohner
    Frederick Kohner was an Austrian-born writer....
    
    
  • Test Pilot
    Test Pilot (film)
    Test Pilot is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming and featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore. The movie tells the story of a daredevil test pilot , his wife , and his best friend...
    
    - Frank Wead
    Frank Wead
    Frank Wilbur "Spig" Wead was a U.S. Navy aviator turned screenwriter who helped promote United States Naval aviation from its inception through World War II.-Military service:A 1916 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Wead began to promote Naval Aviation after World War...
    
    
• 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story. Mr...
  
  - Lewis R. Foster
  Lewis R. Foster
  Lewis R. Foster was an American screenwriter, film/television director, and film/television producer. He directed and wrote over one hundred films and television series between 1926 and 1960.-Director:...
  
  
  • Bachelor Mother
    Bachelor Mother
    Bachelor Mother is an American comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers , David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on a Academy Award nominated story by Felix Jackson...
    
    - Felix Jackson
  • Love Affair - Mildred Cram
    Mildred Cram
    Mildred Cram was a popular American writer.Her short story "Stranger Things" was included in the O. Henry Award story collection for 1921. A number of her stories and novels were made into films...
    
    , Leo McCarey
    Leo McCarey
    Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
    
    
  • Ninotchka
    Ninotchka
    Ninotchka is a 1939 American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas. It was written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Walter Reisch, based on a screen story by Melchior Lengyel. Ninotchka is Greta Garbo's first full...
    
    - Melchior Lengyel
    Melchior Lengyel
    Melchior Lengyel was a Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter.-Biography:Lengyel was born Lebovics Menyhért in Balmazújváros, Hungary. He started his career as a journalist...
    
    
  • Young Mr. Lincoln
    Young Mr. Lincoln
    Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 partly fictionalized biography about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda. Ford and producer Darryl F. Zanuck fought for control of the film, to the point where Ford destroyed unwanted takes for fear the studio...
    
    - Lamar Trotti
    Lamar Trotti
    Lamar Jefferson Trotti was an American screenwriter, producer, and motion picture executive.- Early life and education :Trotti was born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He became the first graduate of the Henry W...
    
    

1940s

• 1940 Arise, My Love
  Arise, My Love
  Arise, My Love is a 1940 American romantic comedy film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Théry, and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland....
  
  - Benjamin Glazer
  Benjamin Glazer
  Benjamin Glazer was a screenwriter, producer, foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom into English in 1921...
  
  , John Toldy
  • Comrade X
    Comrade X
    Comrade X is a 1940 lighthearted spy movie, starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr and directed by King Vidor.-Plot summary:In the Soviet Union, American reporter McKinley "Mac" Thompson secretly writes unflattering stories, attributed to "Comrade X", for his newspaper...
    
    - Walter Reisch
    Walter Reisch
    Walter Reisch was an Austrian-born director and screenwriter. He also wrote lyrics to several songs featured in his films, one popular title is "Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne".-Selected filmography:...
    
    
  • Edison, the Man
    Edison, the Man
    Edison, the Man was a 1940 biographical film depicting the life of inventor Thomas Edison, who was played by Spencer Tracy. Hugo Butler and Dore Schary were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story for their work on this film...
    
    - Hugo Butler
    Hugo Butler
    Hugo D. Butler was a Canadian born screenwriter working in Hollywood who was blacklisted by the movie studios in the 1950s.-Biography:Born in Calgary, Alberta, his father had acted and written scripts in silent films...
    
    , Dore Schary
    Dore Schary
    Isadore "Dore" Schary was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright who became head of production at MGM and eventually president of the studio...
    
    
  • My Favorite Wife
    My Favorite Wife
    My Favorite Wife is a 1940 screwball comedy produced and co-written by Leo McCarey and directed by Garson Kanin. The movie stars Irene Dunne as a woman who returns to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for several years, and Cary Grant as her husband...
    
    - Leo McCarey
    Leo McCarey
    Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
    
    , Samuel Spewack and Bella Spewack
    Samuel and Bella Spewack
    Samuel and Bella Spewack were a husband-and-wife writing team.Samuel, who also directed many of their plays, was born in the Ukraine...
    
    
  • The Westerner - Stuart N. Lake
    Stuart N. Lake
    Stuart N. Lake was a writer whose material dealt largely with the American Old West...
    
    
• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth. It stars Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains and Evelyn Keyes. The movie was adapted by Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller from the play Heaven Can Wait by Harry...
  
  - Harry Segall
  Harry Segall
  Harry Segall was an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer.Segall was born in Chicago....
  
  
  • Ball of Fire
    Ball of Fire
    Ball of Fire is a 1941 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The RKO Pictures film is about a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge...
    
    - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder
    Billy Wilder was an Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age...
    
    
  • The Lady Eve
    The Lady Eve
    The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on a story by Monckton Hoffe about a mismatched couple who meet on board a luxury liner...
    
    - Monckton Hoffe
  • Meet John Doe
    Meet John Doe
    Meet John Doe is a 1941 American comedy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra, and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck. The film is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist and pursued by a wealthy businessman. It became a box office hit...
    
    - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
  • Night Train to Munich
    Night Train to Munich
    Night Train to Munich is a 1940 British thriller film. It was directed by Carol Reed, with writing credits by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder. It is liberally adapted from the Gordon Wellesley novel Report on a Fugitive.-Plot:...
    
    - Gordon Wellesley
• 1942 49th Parallel (The Invaders)
  49th Parallel (film)
  49th Parallel is the third film made by the British writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders. Despite the title, no scene in the movie is set at the 49th parallel, which forms much of the U.S.-Canadian border...
  
  - Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...
  
  
  • Holiday Inn
    Holiday Inn (film)
    Holiday Inn is a 1942 American musical film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, with music by Irving Berlin. The film has twelve songs written expressly for the film, the most notable being "White Christmas"...
    
    - Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...
    
    
  • The Pride of the Yankees
    The Pride of the Yankees
    The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 American film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, and Walter Brennan. The film is a tribute to the legendary New York Yankees first baseman Lou Gehrig, who died only one year before the film's release, at age 37, from amyotrophic lateral...
    
    - Paul Gallico
  • The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
  • Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy
    Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 American biographical musical film about George M. Cohan, known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway". It stars James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, and Richard Whorf, and features Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney.The movie was written by...
    
    - Robert Buckner
• 1943 The Human Comedy
  The Human Comedy (film)
  The Human Comedy is a 1943 drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the William Saroyan novel of the same name, but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and...
  
  - William Saroyan
  William Saroyan
  William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...
  
  
  • Action in the North Atlantic
    Action in the North Atlantic
    Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 war film directed by Lloyd Bacon, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the U.S. Merchant Marine in World War II.-Plot:...
    
    - Guy Gilpatric
    Guy Gilpatric
    John Guy Gilpatric was an American pilot, flight instructor, journalist, short-story writer and novelist, best known for his Mr. Glencannon stories.- Biography :...
    
    
  • Destination Tokyo
    Destination Tokyo
    Destination Tokyo is a 1943 submarine war film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and written by Daves, Steve Fisher and Albert Maltz, and stars Cary Grant and John Garfield with featured performances by Dane Clark, Robert Hutton and Warner Anderson. Production began on June 21, 1943 and continued...
    
    - Steve Fisher
  • The More the Merrier
    The More the Merrier
    The More the Merrier is a 1943 American comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.. The picture stars Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn, Stanley Clements and Richard Gaines. The movie was directed by...
    
    - Frank Ross
    Frank Ross (producer)
    Frank Ross was a film producer, writer, and actor.A graduate of Princeton University, Ross began acting in 1929's The Saturday Night Kid, starring Clara Bow and Jean Arthur, whom he married in 1932. He only appeared in two more films...
    
    , Robert Russell
    Robert W. Russell
    Robert Wallace Russell was an American writer for movies, plays, and documentaries. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Writing, Original Story and Best Writing, Screenplay on the 1943 film The More the Merrier.He died in 1992 in New York City, shortly after his 80th birthday.-...
    
    
  • Shadow of a Doubt
    Shadow of a Doubt
    Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell...
    
    - Gordon McDonell
• 1944 Going My Way
  Going My Way
  Going My Way is a 1944 film directed by Leo McCarey. It is a light-hearted musical comedy-drama about a new young priest taking over a parish from an established old veteran . Crosby sings five songs in the film. It was followed the next year by a sequel, The Bells of St. Mary's. This picture was...
  
  - Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
  
  
  • A Guy Named Joe
    A Guy Named Joe
    A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm. It starred Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne and Van Johnson, with Esther Williams...
    
    - David Boehm
    David Boehm
    David Boehm was an American screenwriter.He is best known for the 1944 World War II heavenly fantasy A Guy Named Joe , for which he received an Academy Award nomination...
    
    , Chandler Sprague
  • Lifeboat
    Lifeboat (film)
    Lifeboat is an American war film directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel, Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a lifeboat.The film is...
    
    - John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck
    John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
    
    
  • None Shall Escape
    None Shall Escape
    None Shall Escape is a 1944 war film. Even though the film was made during World War II, the setting is a post-war Nuremberg-style war crimes trial...
    
    - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
  • The Sullivans
    The Fighting Sullivans
    The Fighting Sullivans, originally released as The Sullivans, is a 1944 American biographical war film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Edward Doherty, Mary C. McCall Jr. and Jules Schermer...
    
    - Edward Doherty
    Eddie Doherty
    Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty was a famed American newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church....
    
    , Jules Schermer
• 1945 The House on 92nd St. - Charles G. Booth
  Charles G. Booth
  Charles G. Booth was a British-born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn and Sundown...
  
  
  • The Affairs of Susan
    The Affairs of Susan
    The Affairs of Susan is a 1945 comedy film starring Joan Fontaine, Walter Abel, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe and Don DeFore. The plot concerns Susan , who is about to be married. Complications set in when her fiance gives a party to celebrate, and he talks to three former beaus of Susan, each of...
    
    - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
  • A Medal for Benny
    A Medal for Benny
    A Medal for Benny is a 1945 American film directed by Irving Pichel. The story was conceived by writer Jack Wagner, who enlisted his longtime friend John Steinbeck to help him put it into script form. The film was released by Paramount Pictures.-Cast:...
    
    - John Steinbeck
    John Steinbeck
    John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
    
    , Jack Wagner
  • Objective, Burma!
    Objective, Burma!
    Objective, Burma! is an Oscar-nominated 1945 war film which was loosely based on the six month raid by Merrill's Marauders in the Burma Campaign during the Second World War...
    
    - Alvah Bessie
    Alvah Bessie
    Alvah Cecil Bessie was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.-Life and career:...
    
    
  • A Song to Remember
    A Song to Remember
    A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a fictionalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin...
    
    - Ernst Marischka
• 1946 Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane
  • The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
  • The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in 1946, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut. The movie is based on the short story "Love Lies Bleeding" by playwright John Patrick, using the...
    
    - Jack Patrick
  • The Stranger
    The Stranger (1946 film)
    The Stranger is an American film noir directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. The film was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas. Sam Spiegel was the film's producer, and the film's musical score is by Bronisław Kaper...
    
    - Victor Trivas
  • To Each His Own
    To Each His Own (film)
    To Each His Own is a 1946 American drama film. It was directed by Mitchell Leisen, and stars Olivia de Havilland, Mary Anderson, Roland Culver, and John Lund in his first on-screen appearance, where he played dual roles as father and son. The screenplay was written by Charles Brackett and Jacques...
    
    - Charles Brackett
• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street
  Miracle on 34th Street
  Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 Christmas film written by George Seaton from a story by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn...
  
  - Valentine Davies
  Valentine Davies
  Valentine Davies was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His credits included Miracle on 34th Street , Chicken Every Sunday , The Bridges at Toko-Ri , and The Benny Goodman Story...
  
  
  • A Cage of Nightingales
    A Cage of Nightingales
    A Cage of Nightingales is a 1945 French film directed by Jean Dréville. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, and served as an inspiration for the film The Chorus .-Synopsis:...
    
    - Georges Chaperot
    Georges Chaperot
    Georges Chaperot is a French screenwriter who co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales with René Wheeler, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus .-External links:...
    
    , René Wheeler
    René Wheeler
    René Wheeler was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus...
    
    
  • It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Clyde Lewis
    Herbert Clyde Lewis
    -Life:Lewis was born in New York City, the son of Hyman and Clara Lewis, Yiddish-speaking Russian immigrants.He lived in China, working as a reporter on the Shanghai Evening Post in 1930 and on the China Press in 1931 and 1932....
    
    , Frederick Stephani
  • Kiss of Death
    Kiss of Death (1947 film)
    Kiss of Death is a 1947 film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky. The story revolves around the film's protagonist, a former robber, and the antagonist, the ruthless, violent Tommy Udo...
    
    - Eleazar Lipsky
    Eleazar Lipsky
    Eleazar Lipsky was a prosecutor, lawyer, novelist and playwright born in the Bronx, New York, USA. He wrote the novels that formed the basis of two very successful films, Kiss of Death and The People Against O'Hara...
    
    
  • Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
    Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman
    Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman , also called A Woman Destroyed, is a drama film which tells the story of a nightclub singer who marries a rising singer and falls into alcoholism when she gives up her own career...
    
    - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker
    Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles....
    
    
• 1948 The Search
  The Search
  The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe...
  
  - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
  • The Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert J. Flaherty
    Robert Joseph Flaherty, F.R.G.S. was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film, Nanook of the North...
    
    , Frances H. Flaherty
    Frances H. Flaherty
    Frances Hubbard Flaherty was married to acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951....
    
    
  • The Naked City
    The Naked City
    The Naked City is a 1948 black-and-white film noir directed by Jules Dassin. The movie, shot partially in documentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City, featuring landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge the Whitehall Building and an apartment building on West 83rd...
    
    - Malvin Wald
    Malvin Wald
    Malvin Daniel Wald was an American screenwriter most famous for writing the 1948 police drama The Naked City, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story. He wrote over 150 scripts for motion pictures and TV shows including Peter Gunn, Daktari, and Perry Mason...
    
    
  • Red River - Borden Chase
    Borden Chase
    Borden Chase was an American writer.Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays...
    
    
  • The Red Shoes - Emeric Pressburger
    Emeric Pressburger
    Emeric Pressburger was a Hungarian-British screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is best known for his series of film collaborations with Michael Powell, in a multiple-award-winning partnership known as The Archers and produced a series of classic British films, notably 49th Parallel , The...
    
    
• 1949 Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
  • Come to the Stable
    Come to the Stable
    Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the story of two French nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital...
    
    - Clare Luce
  • It Happens Every Spring
    It Happens Every Spring
    It Happens Every Spring is a 1949 comedy film starring Ray Milland directed by Lloyd Bacon. The story of a baseball pitcher is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the actual player....
    
    - Valentine Davies
    Valentine Davies
    Valentine Davies was an American film and television writer, producer, and director. His credits included Miracle on 34th Street , Chicken Every Sunday , The Bridges at Toko-Ri , and The Benny Goodman Story...
    
    , Shirley Smith
  • Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima
    Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 war film that follows a group of United States Marines from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. It stars John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara and Forrest Tucker. The movie was written by Harry Brown and James Edward Grant and directed by Allan Dwan...
    
    - Harry Brown
  • White Heat
    White Heat
    White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat , a British film directed by Thomas Bentley* White Heat , an American film* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:...
    
    - Virginia Kellogg
    Virginia Kellogg
    Virginia Kellogg was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat and Caged were nominated for Oscars.At one time, she was married to director Frank Lloyd.-External links:...
    
    

1950s

• 1950 Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt
  Edna Anhalt
  Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt enjoyed some considerable success in a ten year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Oscar win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The...
  
  , Edward Anhalt
  Edward Anhalt
  Edward Anhalt was a noted screenwriter, producer, and documentary film-maker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, née Richards, during World War II to write pulp fiction...
  
  
  • Bitter Rice
    Bitter Rice
    Bitter Rice is a 1949 Italian film made by Lux Film, written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling and Vittorio Gassman, Bitter Rice was a commercial success in Europe and America. It was a product of the Italian...
    
    - Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani
  • The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
  • Mystery Street
    Mystery Street
    Mystery Street is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed lensman John Alton. The film stars Ricardo Montalban, Bruce Bennett, and Elsa Lanchester....
    
    - Leonard Spigelglass
  • When Willie Comes Marching Home
    When Willie Comes Marching Home
    When Willie Comes Marching Home is a 1950 World War II comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet. It is based on the 1945 short story When Leo Comes Marching Home by Sy Gomberg.-Plot:...
    
    - Sy Gomberg
• 1951 Seven Days to Noon
  Seven Days to Noon
  Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 British drama / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film.-Plot:The film is set in the early 1950s...
  
  - James Bernard, Paul Dehn
  Paul Dehn
  Paul Dehn was a British screenwriter.-Biography and work:Dehn was born in 1912 in Manchester, England. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and attended Brasenose College, Oxford...
  
  
  • The Bullfighter and the Lady
    The Bullfighter and the Lady
    Bullfighter and the Lady is a 1951 drama film directed and written by Budd Boetticher. Filmed on location in Mexico, the film focused on the realities of the dangerous sport of bullfighting. During production, one stunt man died...
    
    - Budd Boetticher
    Budd Boetticher
    Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.Known for their sparse style, dramatic rocky locations near Lone Pine, California, and recurring stories of...
    
    , Ray Nazarro
    Ray Nazarro
    Ray Nazarro was an American film and television director, producer, and screenwriter-Biography:Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Nazarro entered the movie business during the silent era, and began directing short films in 1929 with In and Out...
    
    
  • The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
  • Here Comes the Groom
    Here Comes the Groom
    Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 musical romantic comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the film was released by Paramount Pictures.-Plot:...
    
    - Liam O'Brien
    Liam O'Brien (screenwriter)
    Liam O'Brien was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for writing the movie Here Comes the Groom.-Life and career:...
    
    , Robert Riskin
    Robert Riskin
    Robert Riskin was an American screenwriter and playwright, best known for his collaborations with director-producer Frank Capra.-Career:...
    
    
  • Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
• 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B. DeMille, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture...
  
  - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John
  • My Son John - Leo McCarey
    Leo McCarey
    Thomas Leo McCarey was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in nearly 200 movies, especially comedies...
    
    
  • The Narrow Margin
    The Narrow Margin
    The Narrow Margin is a 1952 American film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Earl Felton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard. Writers Goldsmith and Leonard were nominated for an Academy Award for their story.The picture stars Charles McGraw,...
    
    - Martin Goldsmith
    Martin Goldsmith
    Martin Goldsmith wrote several classic B-movies including Detour , Blind Spot and The Narrow Margin in 1952 for which he was Oscar-nominated....
    
    , Jack Leonard
  • The Pride of St. Louis
    The Pride of St. Louis
    The Pride of St. Louis is a 1952 biographical film of the life of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Jerome Herman "Dizzy" Dean. It starred Dan Dailey as Dean, Joanne Dru as his wife, and Richard Crenna as his brother Paul "Daffy" Dean, also a major league pitcher.Guy Trosper was nominated...
    
    - Guy Trosper
    Guy Trosper
    Guy Trosper was an American screenwriter. He came to prominence in Hollywood because of his scripts for two baseball movies: The Stratton Story in 1949, a big hit for James Stewart, and The Pride of St...
    
    
  • The Sniper - Edward Anhalt
    Edward Anhalt
    Edward Anhalt was a noted screenwriter, producer, and documentary film-maker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, née Richards, during World War II to write pulp fiction...
    
    , Edna Anhalt
    Edna Anhalt
    Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt enjoyed some considerable success in a ten year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Oscar win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The...
    
    
• 1953 Roman Holiday - Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...
  
   (Note: The screen credit and award was originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter
  Ian McLellan Hunter
  Ian McLellan Hunter was an English screenwriter, most noted for fronting for the blacklisted Dalton Trumbo as the credited writer of Roman Holiday in 1953. Hunter was himself later blacklisted.-Roman Holiday:...
  
  , who was a front for Trumbo. On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to retrospectively attribute the award to Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. Although Trumbo had died some years earlier, he had been alive in 1954 and this is not considered a posthumous award)
  • Above and Beyond
    Above and Beyond (film)
    Above and Beyond is a 1952 film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife. James Whitmore played security officer Major Bill Uanna.-Cast:...
    
    - Beirne Lay
  • The Captain's Paradise
    The Captain's Paradise
    The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film starring Alec Guinness and directed by Anthony Kimmins. It is set in Gibraltar and northern Morocco, and on a ship that travels between them....
    
    - Alec Coppel
  • Hondo
    Hondo (film)
    Hondo is a movie that was made in 1953 by 3-D Warnercolor western film starring John Wayne, directed by John Farrow. The screenplay is based on the 1952 short story "The Gift of Cochise" by Louis L'Amour...
    
    - Louis L'Amour (Note: Originally announced on February 15, 1954 as a nominee in this category. On February 17, 1954, letters from the producer and nominee questioned its inclusion in the category, as it was based on the short story, "The Gift of Cochise", by the nominee, Mr. L'Amour, published in Collier's magazine on July 5, 1952. By waiver, the title of the short story was not included in the film's credits. The nomination was withdrawn, and only four nominees were included on the final ballot. The Academy thanked Mr. L'Amour and despite this incident, offered him a membership in the Academy.)
  • Little Fugitive
    Little Fugitive
    Little Fugitive is a 1953 film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin , Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin, that tells the story of a child alone at Coney Island....
    
    - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
• 1954 Broken Lance
  Broken Lance
  Broken Lance is a 1954 Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Sol C. Siegel. The movie stars Spencer Tracy and features Katy Jurado, Richard Widmark, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Eduard Franz, Hugh O'Brian and Earl Holliman.Shot in color and...
  
  - Philip Yordan
  • Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
    Ettore Margadonna
    Ettore Margadonna was an Italian screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film Bread, Love and Dreams .-Selected filmography:* Bread, Love and Dreams...
    
    
  • Forbidden Games - François Boyer
  • Night People
    Night People (1954 film)
    Night People is a 1954 motion picture drama starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork and Buddy Ebsen, directed by Nunnally Johnson. It was co-written by Jed Harris, a noted theatrical producer....
    
    - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
  • There's No Business Like Show Business
    There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
    There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox musical film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the famous song in the stage musical Annie Get Your Gun....
    
    - Lamar Trotti (posthumous nomination)
• 1955 Love Me or Leave Me
  Love Me or Leave Me (film)
  Love Me or Leave Me is a 1955 biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin "Moe the Gimp" Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl...
  
  - Daniel Fuchs
  Daniel Fuchs
  Daniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist.-Biography:Daniel Fuchs was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant...
  
  
  • The Private War of Major Benson
    The Private War of Major Benson
    The Private War of Major Benson is 1955 comedy film starring Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Sal Mineo and Tim Hovey, about a tough-talking U.S. Army Officer who must shape up the ROTC program at Sheridan Academy, a Catholic boys' military school, or be forced out of the Army.The movie was filmed on St...
    
    - Joe Connelly
    Joe Connelly (producer)
    Joe Connelly was a television and radio scriptwriter born in New York City. He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy, Meet Mr...
    
    , Bob Mosher
    Bob Mosher
    Robert "Bob" Mosher was a television and radio scriptwriter born in Auburn, New York. He was best known for his work on Amos and Andy, Meet Mr. McNutley, Leave It To Beaver, Ichabod and Me, Bringing Up Buddy, and The Munsters, along with his co-writer Joe Connelly who is buried in Culver City's...
    
    
  • Rebel Without a Cause
    Rebel Without a Cause
    Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments...
    
    - Nicholas Ray
    Nicholas Ray
    Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause....
    
    
  • The Sheep Has Five Legs
    The Sheep Has Five Legs
    The Sheep Has Five Legs is a 1954 French film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story.- Cast :*Fernandel as Édouard Saint-Forget / Les quintuplés : Alain, Bernard, Charles, Désiré...
    
    - Jean Marsan
    Jean Marsan
    Jean Marsan was a French screenwriter and actor. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs .- References :...
    
    , Henri Troyat
    Henri Troyat
    Henri Troyat was a Russian born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.-Biography:Troyat was born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian, Russian, German and Georgian...
    
    , Jacques Perret
    Jacques Perret (writer)
    Jacques Perret was a French writer best known for his novel Le Caporal Épinglé , which tells the story of his captivity in Germany and of his escape attempts. This novel would later be adapted into a film by famous French director Jean Renoir in 1962...
    
    , Henri Verneuil
    Henri Verneuil
    Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France.-Biography:...
    
    , Raoul Ploquin
    Raoul Ploquin
    Raoul Ploquin was a French film producer, production manager and screenwriter. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs .-Selected filmography:...
    
    
  • Strategic Air Command
    Strategic Air Command (film)
    Strategic Air Command is a 1955 American film starring James Stewart and June Allyson, and directed by Anthony Mann. Released by Paramount Pictures, it was the first of four films that depicted the role of the Strategic Air Command in the Cold War era....
    
    - Beirne Lay
• 1956 The Brave One
  The Brave One (1956 film)
  The Brave One is a 1956 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper and starring Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., and Elsa Cárdenas. It tells the story of a young Mexican boy who tries to save his beloved bull Gitano from the bullfighting arena....
  
  - Robert Rich (aka Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...
  
  ) (Note: The name of the writer credited with authorship, Robert Rich, turned out to be an alias for Mr. Trumbo, who was being blacklisted at that time. On May 2, 1975, then-Academy president Walter Mirisch
  Walter Mirisch
  Walter Mortimer Mirisch is an American film producer. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry’s finest and most memorable films...
  
   presented the Award to Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  James Dalton Trumbo was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry...
  
  .)
  • The Eddy Duchin Story
    The Eddy Duchin Story
    The Eddy Duchin Story is a 1956 biopic of band leader and pianist Eddy Duchin. It was directed by George Sidney-helmed film, written by Samuel A. Taylor, and starred Tyrone Power and Kim Novak. The musical soundtrack recording, imitating Duchin's style, was performed by pianist Carmen Cavallaro....
    
    - Leo Katcher
  • High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman (Note: The authors of this Bowery Boys
    The Bowery Boys
    The Bowery Boys were fictional New York City characters who were the subject of feature films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958....
    
     film respectfully withdrew their own names and the nomination. They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name starring Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby
    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
    
    , Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly
    Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...
    
     and Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra
    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
    
     which was based on The Philadelphia Story. This nomination was not included on the final ballot.)
  • The Proud and the Beautiful
    The Proud and the Beautiful
    The Proud and the Beautiful is a 1953 Franco-Mexican co-production drama directed by Yves Allégret. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story; the nomination officially went to Jean-Paul Sartre.-Cast:...
    
    - Jean-Paul Sartre
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy, particularly Marxism, and was one of the key figures in literary...
    
    
  • Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini
    Cesare Zavattini
    Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.-Brief biography:...