Arthur Caesar (9 March 1892 – 20 June 1953) was a Romanian-American

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and brother of the songwriter Irving Caesar.

Biography

Caesar first started writing Hollywood films in 1924. Most of his films were in the

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category. He won an

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for the story of '' Manhattan Melodrama'' (1934), which is most famous today for being the film that John Dillinger had just seen before getting gunned down outside the cinema. Caesar died in

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on June 20, 1953.

Selected filmography

* '' His Darker Self'' (1924) * '' Napoleon's Barber'' (1928) * '' The Aviator'' (1929) * '' She Couldn't Say No'' (1930) * '' The Life of the Party'' (1930) * '' Gold Dust Gertie'' (1931) * '' Side Show'' (1931) * '' Manhattan Melodrama'' (1934) * '' Atlantic City'' (1944) * '' I Accuse My Parents'' (1944) * '' Three of a Kind'' (1944)

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* 1892 births 1953 deaths Jewish Romanian writers American people of Romanian-Jewish descent Romanian emigrants to the United States Romanian screenwriters Romanian male screenwriters Best Story Academy Award winners 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1890s-stub