Eric S. Hatch
Eric Hatch ( born October 31, 1901 in New York City, New York; † 4 July 1973 in Torrington, Connecticut ) was an American author of screenplays, short stories and novels, the one time for the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay was nominated.
Life
Hatch, son of a broker working on Wall Street, first worked as a writer for The New Yorker magazine. At the beginning of the 1930s he began writing novels, short stories and screenplays and wrote 1928 A couple of quick ones his first novel. His first work as a screenwriter, he returned in 1931 for the crime comedy Buster has nothing to laugh by Zion Myers and Jules White with Buster Keaton, Anita Page and Cliff Edwards in the lead roles.
At the Academy Awards in 1937 Hatch was nominated together with Morrie Ryskind for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, and indeed for the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936 ) who staged Pallette Gregory La Cava with William Powell, Carole Lombard and Eugene.
In 1941 he published his novel Unexpected Uncle, who was also made into a film in 1941, after the screenplay adaptation by Delmer Daves of film director Peter Godfrey with Anne Shirley, James Craig and Charles Coburn. His 1934 published novel road show was also filmed in 1941, from Hal Roach with Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis and John Hubbard in the lead roles.
In the 1950s he wrote Prepared TV and acquired at this time also the radio station WBIS in Bristol (Connecticut). Hatch, who had a great interest in the history of the United States, was established in 1967 elected chairman of the Two hundred year - Commission for the American Revolution.
His older brother Alden R. Hatch was also a writer and has written numerous biographies.
Publications
- A couple of quick ones, 1928
- Romance Prescribed, 1930
- Five days by Eric Hatch, 1933
- Road show 1934
- My man Godfrey, 1935
- Good old Jack by Eric Hatch, 1937
- Unexpected uncle, 1941
- Words and Music, 1943
- The unexpected warrior, 1947
- The beautiful bequest, 1950
- A guide to historic sites in Connecticut, 1963
- The judge and the junior exhibitor, 1964
- The little book of bells, 1964
- The year of the horse 1965
- The colonel 's ladies 1968
- Two and two is six, 1969
- What goes on in the horses ' heads, 1970