Albert Mannheimer

Albert Mannheimer ( born March 9, 1913 in New York City, New York, † March 19, 1972 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American writer, journalist and critic.

Life and work

Mannheim had studied at Yale and then worked as a critic for the New York Enquirer. For the Samuel French publishing house, he was also active as a columnist and has also in the 1930s, worked as an author of the radio program " Good News ".

1937 MGM signed him as the author of short films since 1939 's Mannheim as a screenwriter of feature-length films detectable. Throughout the Second World War, the New Yorker was offered only B- film material. Some works, such as the Western The Kid From Texas and The Last Bandit ( Billy the Kid ), he also wrote or just the lyrics, with other films remained Mannheim in pre- guying or anonymous or was as a worker (so-called script polisher ) already fetched existing screenplays.

In 1946 he undertook a trip to Broadway and there staged his own play, The Bees and the Flowers, which, however, only four weeks, ran in the autumn of the same year. Another stage career has taken him to the Margo Jones Theatre to Dallas. In the early postwar years, Mannheimer's film career seemed to improve when he was offered better material. For his screenplay for the comedy The is not of yesterday received Albert Mannheimer 1951 an Academy Award nomination as well as a more of the Writers Guild of America.

He is then to prove any more. In the 1960s, Albert Mannheimer found only minimal work in television.

Filmography

Only as a screenwriter

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