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Alan Maurice Hyman (10 January 1910 – 23 February 1999) was an English writer, journalist, and film writer.
Life and work
Alan Hyman was the son of A. Hyman. He was educated at
St Cyprian's School,
Repton School
Repton School is a 13–18 co-educational, independent, day and boarding school in the English public school tradition, in Repton, Derbyshire, England.
Sir John Port of Etwall, on his death in 1557, left funds to create a grammar school whi ...
, and
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...
. He became a journalist and worked on the staff of the ''
Daily Sketch
The ''Daily Sketch'' was a British national tabloid newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1909 by Sir Edward Hulton.
It was bought in 1920 by Lord Rothermere's Daily Mirror Newspapers, but in 1925 Rothermere sold it to William and Gomer Berry ...
'' and ''
Sunday Graphic'' from 1929 to 1932. Then he became a
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
and spent much of his life in the film industry. At
Gaumont, he worked for
Michael Balcon
Sir Michael Elias Balcon (19 May 1896 – 17 October 1977) was an English film producer known for his leadership of Ealing Studios in West London from 1938 to 1955. Under his direction, the studio became one of the most important British film ...
and collaborated on the scripts of ''Sunshine Suzie'' and ''Falling in Love''. Subsequently, he worked with
Herbert Wilcox
Herbert Sydney Wilcox Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 April 1890 – 15 May 1977) was a British film producer and film director, director.
He was one of the most successful British filmmakers from the 1920s to the 1950s. He is best know ...
on ''
Three Maxims
''Three Maxims'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks. It was released in the United States under the alternative title '' The Show Goes On''. Separate French and Ger ...
'' and ''
Victoria the Great
''Victoria the Great'' is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla. When Laurence Housman's play ''Victoria Regina'' was banned by the Lord Chamberlain (in 1935 the royal ...
'' and then with
Thorold Dickinson
Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...
as co-author of the script for the film ''
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' is a 1939 British mystery film and one of the first feature films wherein football is a central element in the plot. The film was directed by Thorold Dickinson, and shot at Denham Film Studios and on location ...
'' in 1939.
Later, he collaborated with
Sydney Box
Frank Sydney Box (29 April 1907 – 25 May 1983) was a British film producer and screenwriter, and brother of British film producer Betty Box. In 1940, he founded the documentary film company Verity Films with Jay Lewis.
He produced and co- ...
on ''
I Met a Murderer
''I Met a Murderer'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge and William Devlin. A man murders his oppressive wife and flees from the police. He meets a young woman who ...
''. During the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, he was commissioned into the
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
Royal may refer to:
People
* Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
* A member of a royal family
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* Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Royal, Illinois, a village
* Royal, Iowa, a cit ...
and worked as a screenwriter.
Hyman wrote scripts for
BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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...
radio including the programme ''Spotlight on a Tunesmith'' compered by
Ben Lyon
Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.
Early life and career
Lyon was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Alvine ...
and ''Pioneers of Jazz''. He joined
Shell International
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...
in 1952, writing and producing scripts for their Visual Aids Unit. From 1954 to 1958, he was a member of the Council of the
Screenwriters' Association and was on the film panel that selected the best British film scripts each year. He continued in journalism and became an expert on
Sullivan's light operas and on
Victorian burlesque
Victorian burlesque, sometimes known as travesty or extravaganza, is a genre of theatrical entertainment that was popular in Victorian era, Victorian England and in the New York theatre of the mid-19th century. It is a form of parody music, parod ...
theatre. He described this in ''The
Gaiety
Gaiety or Gayety may refer to:
* Gaiety (mood), the state of being happy
* Gaiety Theatre (disambiguation)
* ''USS Gayety (AM-239'', former name of the ship ''BRP Magat Salamat (PS-20)''
See also
*Gaiety Girls
Gaiety Girls were the chorus girl ...
Years'' a book about
Gaiety Girls
Gaiety Girls were the chorus girls in Edwardian musical comedies, beginning in the 1890s at the Gaiety Theatre, London, in the shows produced by George Edwardes. The popularity of this genre of musical theatre depended, in part, on the beautifu ...
. He also wrote an important work on
Horatio Bottomley
Horatio William Bottomley (23 March 1860 – 26 May 1933) was an English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament. He is best known for his editorship of the popular magazine ''John Bull (maga ...
, the swindler.
He had four children, the author
Miranda Miller, the artist
Timothy Hyman, the Afghan scholar
Anthony Hyman
Anthony Hyman (17 April 1946 – 19 December 1999) was a British academic, writer, broadcaster, and Islamicist.
Anthony Hyman was a son of the author, journalist, and film writer Alan Hyman (1910–1999). His siblings were the author Mir ...
and Nicholas Hyman.
Filmography
* ''
Sunshine Suzie''
* ''
Falling in Love
Falling in love is the development of strong feelings of attachment and love, usually towards another person.
The term is metaphorical, emphasizing that the process, like the physical act of falling, is sudden, uncontrollable and leaves the ...
'' (1935) (story) ... aka ''Trouble Ahead'' (USA) starring
Charles Farrell
Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor ...
and
Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff (born Grigory Vasilyevich Ratner; russian: Григорий Васильевич Ратнер, tr. ; April 20, c. 1893 – December 14, 1960) was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. As an actor, he was bes ...
* ''
Three Maxims
''Three Maxims'' is a 1936 British drama film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Tullio Carminati and Leslie Banks. It was released in the United States under the alternative title '' The Show Goes On''. Separate French and Ger ...
'' (1936)
* ''
Victoria the Great
''Victoria the Great'' is a 1937 British historical film directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook and Walter Rilla. When Laurence Housman's play ''Victoria Regina'' was banned by the Lord Chamberlain (in 1935 the royal ...
'' (1937)
* ''
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
''The Arsenal Stadium Mystery'' is a 1939 British mystery film and one of the first feature films wherein football is a central element in the plot. The film was directed by Thorold Dickinson, and shot at Denham Film Studios and on location ...
'' (1939) (adaptation)
* ''
I Met a Murderer
''I Met a Murderer'' is a 1939 British thriller film directed by Roy Kellino and starring James Mason, Pamela Mason, Sylvia Coleridge and William Devlin. A man murders his oppressive wife and flees from the police. He meets a young woman who ...
''
Bibliography
*''The Rise & Fall of Horatio Bottomley: The biography of a swindler'',
Cassell, 1972.
*''The Gaiety Years'', Cassell, 1975.
*''Sullivan and his Satellites: A survey of English operettas 1860–1914'', Elm Tree Books, 1978.
References
Sources
* Repton School Register
* Dustjacket notes to ''"The Gaiety Years"''
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1910 births
1999 deaths
People educated at Repton School
People educated at St Cyprian's School
Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
20th-century English screenwriters
20th-century English male writers
English male screenwriters
Royal Navy officers of World War II
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II
Burials at Brompton Cemetery