Myles Connolly
Myles Connolly ( born October 7, 1897 in Boston, Massachusetts, † July 15, 1964 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American film producer and screenwriter who once each for an Oscar for best original screenplay, the Hugo Award for the best Dramenpresentation and the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) was nominated for the bestgeschriebene musical.
Life
Connolly was first known by its North American Christian literature attributable to youth book Mr. Blue (1928 ), in which he tells the story of a modern St. Francis of Assisi. He began his career in the film industry in Hollywood as a film producer in 1929 staged by Frank Craven and Richard Rosson film comedy The Very Idea with Frank Craven, Hugh Trevor and Sally Blane in the lead roles. He produced until 1937 sixteen more films and began in 1933 and his work as a screenwriter with the screenplay for the romantic musical comedy Face in the Sky by Harry Lachman with Spencer Tracy, Marian Nixon and Stuart Erwin.
At the Academy Awards in 1946 Connolly was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, and indeed for the damage under the direction of Henry Koster film music for millions ( Music for Millions, 1944) with the main actors Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi and Jimmy Durante.
In 1951 he was nominated for the Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation together director Henry Koster and the other writers Mary Chase and Oscar Brodney for My friend Harvey ( Harvey, 1950) with James Stewart, Josephine Hull and Peggy Dow.
Most recently, Connolly, who was involved as a screenwriter and film producer 1929-1956 in the production of more than forty films and television series, 1952, together with Virginia Van Upp and Liam O'Brien for the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for nominated bestgeschriebene the American musical, and indeed for wedding parade ( Here Comes the Groom, 1951) by Frank Capra with Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman and Alexis Smith in the lead roles.
Publications
- Mr. Blue, 1928
- The bump on Brannigan 's head, 1950
- Dan England and the noonday devil, 1951
- The reason for Ann, 1953
- Three who ventured, 1958