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1st Writers Guild Of America Awards
The 1st Writers Guild of America Awards The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949. Eligibility T ... honored the best film writers of 1948. Winners were announced in 1949. Winners and nominees Film Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface. References External links WGA.org {{WGA Awards Chron 1948 WGA 1948 in American cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers Guild Of America, East
The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) is a labor union representing writers in film, television, radio, news, and online media. The Writers Guild of America, East is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America West. Together the guilds administer the Writers Guild of America Awards. It is an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists, the International Affiliation of Writers Guilds, and the AFL–CIO. History WGAE had its beginnings in 1912, when the Authors' League of America (ALA) was formed by some 350 book and magazine authors, as well as dramatists. In 1921, this group split into two branches of the League: the Dramatists Guild of America for writers of stage and, later, radio drama and the Authors Guild (AG) for novelists and nonfiction book and magazine authors. That same year, the Screen Writers Guild came into existence in Hollywood, California, but was "little more than a social organization", according to the WGAe's website, until the Great Depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command Decision (film)
''Command Decision'' is a 1949 war film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring Clark Gable, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson, and Brian Donlevy, and directed by Sam Wood, based on the 1948 Command Decision (play), stage play of the same name written by William Wister Haines, which he based on his best-selling 1947 novel. The screenplay for the film was written by George Froeschel and William R. Laidlaw. Haines' play ran on Broadway for almost a year beginning in October 1947. Although portraying the strategic bombing of Nazi Germany in World War II, the main action takes place almost entirely within the confines of the headquarters of its protagonist. Depicting the political infighting of conducting a major war effort, the film's major theme is the emotional toll on commanders from ordering missions that result in high casualties, the effects of sustained combat on all concerned, and the nature of accountability for its consequences. Plot In 1943, at the Ministry of Information (Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Kleiner
Harry Kleiner (September 10, 1916 Tiflis, Russian Empire – October 17, 2007 Chicago, Illinois) was a Russian Empire-born American screenwriter and producer best known for his films at 20th Century Fox. Select Filmography *''Fallen Angel'' (1945) *''The Dark Corner'' (1946) - uncredited *''The Street with No Name'' (1948) *'' Red Skies of Montana'' (1952) *''Kangaroo'' (1952) *''Salome'' (1953) *''Miss Sadie Thompson'' (1953) *'' King of the Khyber Rifles'' (1953) *''Carmen Jones'' (1954) *''House of Bamboo'' (1955) *''The Violent Men'' (1955) *'' Cry Tough'' (1957) - also producer *''The Rabbit Trap'' (1959) - producer only *''The Garment Jungle'' (1959) - and producer *''Ice Palace'' (1960) *''A Fever in the Blood'' (1961) *''Bus Stop'' (1962) (TV series) *'' The Virginian'' (1965) (TV series) *''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966) *''Bullitt'' (1968) *''Le Mans'' (1971) *'' Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg'' (1974) (TV film) *'' Extreme Prejudice'' (1987) *''Red Heat T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Street With No Name
''The Street with No Name'' is a 1948 film noir directed by William Keighley. A follow-up to ''The House on 92nd Street'' (1945), it tells the story of an undercover FBI agent, Gene Cordell ( Mark Stevens), who infiltrates a deadly crime gang. Cordell's superior, FBI Inspector George A. Briggs (Lloyd Nolan), also appears in ''The House on 92nd Street''. The film, shot in a semidocumentary style, takes place in the Skid Row section of fictional (actually Los Angeles) "Center City." Plot A crime wave, including a holdup at a nightclub that ends in a murder and a bank robbery in which a guard is killed, has hit Center City. A squad of FBI agents headed by inspector George A. Briggs meets with local FBI field officer Richard Atkins, police chief Bernard Harmatz and Police Commissioner Ralph Demory. After Briggs interrogates suspect Robert Danker, who claims he was not involved in either killing and that he has been framed, various tests are run at the FBI laboratory in Washington that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malvin Wald
Malvin Daniel Wald (August 8, 1917 – March 6, 2008) 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''. He also served with the Army Air Forces and taught screenwriting at the University of Southern California. He died at Sherman Oaks Hospital in Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ... from age-related causes at age 90. Filmography Films Television References External links *'Naked City' writer Malvin Wald dies 1917 births 2008 deaths American male screenwriters First Motion Picture Unit personnel 20th-century Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Maltz
Albert Maltz (; October 28, 1908 – April 26, 1985) was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA. They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted, which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years. Background Albert Maltz was the third of three sons born to Bernard Morris Maltz, a Russian immigrant from modern-day Lithuania,Bernard Maltz and Lena Sherry Maltz passport application, ''Passport Applications, January 2, 1906 – March 31, 1925'' (microform database), 1924 Roll 2523 – Certificates: 418850-419349, 17 May 1924 – 19 May 1924. and Lena Schereaschetsky (later Sherry), also an immigrant from a Russia-controlled area.13th U.S. Federal Decennial Census, New York state, Kings county, Brooklyn borough, 21st Ward, New York City, April 29, 1910, E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Naked City
''The Naked City'' (aka ''Naked City'') is a 1948 American film noir directed by Jules Dassin, starring Barry Fitzgerald, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart and Don Taylor. The film, shot almost entirely on location in New York City, depicts the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. ''Naked City'' received two Academy Awards, one for cinematography for William H. Daniels and another for film editing to Paul Weatherwax. In 2007, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Plot In the late hours of a hot New York summer night, a pair of men subdue and kill Jean Dexter, an ex-model, by knocking her out with chloroform and drowning her in her bathtub. When one of the murderers gets conscience-stricken while drunk, the other kills him and throws his body into the East River. Homicide Detective Lt. Dan Muldoon and his young associate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances H
Frances is a French and English given name of Latin origin. In Latin the meaning of the name Frances is 'from France' or 'free one.' The male version of the name in English is Francis. The original Franciscus, meaning "Frenchman", comes from the Franks who were named for the francisca, the axe they used in battle. https://nameberry.com/babyname/frances Notable people and characters with the name include: People * Frances, Countess of Périgord (died 1481) * Frances (musician) (born 1993), British singer and songwriter * Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860-1923), American temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer * Frances Burke, Countess of Clanricarde (1567–1633), English noblewoman and Irish countess * Frances E. Burns (1866-1937), American social leader and business executive * Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset (1590–1632), central figure in a famous scandal and murder * Frances Lewis Brackett Damon (1857–1939), American poet, writer * Frances Davidson, Viscountess Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisiana Story
''Louisiana Story'' is a 1948 American black-and-white drama film directed by Robert J. Flaherty. Although it has historically been represented as a documentary film, the events and characters depicted are fictional and the film was commissioned by the Standard Oil Company to promote its drilling ventures in the Louisiana bayous. There is not enough factual or educational material in the film to even warrant classifying it as docufiction. Its script was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty. Plot The film deals with the adventures of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon, who live a somewhat idyllic existence playing in the bayous of Louisiana. A sub-plot involves his elderly father allowing an oil company to drill for oil in the inlet that runs behind their house. An inland barge is towed into the inlet from interconnecting waterways. Most if not all of South Louisiana swamps and inland waters without land access were and are explored using dredged channels and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DeWitt Bodeen
DeWitt Bodeen (July 25, 1908 — March 12, 1988) was an American film screenwriter and television writer best known for writing ''Cat People (1942 film), Cat People'' (1942). Biography Born Homer DeWitt Bodeen on July 25, 1908, in Fresno, California, he began his career as an actor and wrote more than 20 plays before entering the film business. He began his career in the film industry when his stage work drew the attention of film writer and producer Val Lewton, who arranged for Bodeen to work as a research assistant to British novelist Aldous Huxley. He published his first book-length contribution to entertainment history in 1937, ''Ladies of the Footlights'', a slim volume of theater celebrity profiles. Republished in 2013 by Literary Licensing. In the late 1930s, he began working for RKO and worked his way up to a script writer. His screenwriting credits include ''Cat People'' (1942), ''The Curse of the Cat People'' (1944), ''The Seventh Victim'' (1943), ''The Enchanted Cot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Remember Mama (film)
''I Remember Mama'' is a 1948 American drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen, whose work was adapted from John Van Druten's stage play. Druten, in turn, had based his play on Kathryn Forbes' novel ''Mama's Bank Account'', which was originally published by Harcourt Brace in 1943. The story in all its variant forms recounts the everyday life and economic struggles of a Norwegian immigrant family in San Francisco in the early 20th century. The film stars Irene Dunne as the mother, as well as Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Ellen Corby and Philip Dorn. Homolka portrays Uncle Chris in the film, a role he had performed earlier in the Broadway production. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including best actor and actress in a supporting role, with Irene Dunne receiving her final Best Actress nomination. Plot The film begins with eldest daughter Katrin completing the last lines of her autobiographical novel. As she reminisces ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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