Alfred Hayes (writer)
Alfred Hayes ( born April 18, 1911 in London, † 14 August 1985) was an English writer. He wrote screenplays for cinema and television, novels and poems. Hayes lived in Italy and in the United States. He is best known for his poem "Joe Hill " ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night ... " ), which was set to music by Earl Robinson.
Life and work
Hayes was born in London, graduated from the City College of New York (now the City University of New York belonging ), worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and began in the 1930s with his literary work. During the Second World War, he served in Europe in the U.S. Army Special Services (the " morale - Division "). After that, he lived in Rome and was the author of screenplays for films of the Italian neo-realism. As co-author of Roberto Rossellini's film Paisà (1946 ) he was nominated for an Oscar; he received another Oscar nomination in 1951 for Teresa. Hayes also worked his novel The Girl on the Via Flaminia into a stage play; In 1953 it was filmed as Un acte d' amour ( An act of love). He was a co-author not mentioned by Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves neorealistischem film (1948 ), for which he also wrote the English subtitles.
Among his screenplays in the U.S. include The Lusty Men (1952, directed by Nicholas Ray ) and movie editing of the musical Lost in the Stars Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill (1974). Hayes wrote, among other things, television screenplays for the American series Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and Mannix.
His brother Raphael Hayes (1915-2010) was also active as a screenwriter.
Works
Volumes of poetry
- The Big Time (1944 )
- Welcome to the Castle ( 1950)
- Just Before the Divorce (1968 )
Novels
- All Thy Conquests (1946, German All your wins)
- The Girl on the Via Flaminia (1949, first German under the title The Girl on the Via Flaminia, later as an act of love published )
- Shadow of Heaven ( 1947)
- In Love (1953, first as German Love invited me appeared later as In Love, ISBN 3-499-12811- X)
- The Stock Broker, the Bitter Young Man, and the Beautiful Girl ( 1973)
Short stories
- The Temptations of Don Volpi (1960 )