Allan Scott (American screenwriter)
Laurence Allan Scott ( * May 23, 1906 in Arlington, New Jersey, † April 13, 1995 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American screenwriter who was nominated once for an Oscar for best original screenplay.
Life
Scott graduated after visiting the Amherst College with financial support from a Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. He began his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1933 with the written based on his eponymous 1932 romantic comedy film stage work Goodbye Again by Michael Curtiz with Warren William, Joan Blondell and Genevieve Tobin in the lead roles.
After he had in 1934 signed a contract as a screenwriter at RKO Pictures, he belonged until 1940 to the relevant authors of music and dance films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dance like me! ( The Gay Divorcee, 1934), I dance ' me ( Has Top, 1935) into your heart into it, Swing Time (1936) and Dance With Me ( Shall We Dance, 1937). In addition, however, he was also regarded as so-called " script doctor ", the screenplays of other authors gegenlas and revised.
At the Academy Awards in 1944 Scott was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, and indeed for the staged for Paramount Pictures by Mark Sandrich war movie Courageous Women ( So Proudly We Hail! , 1943) with the leading actresses Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake.
Scott, who wrote the scripts and templates for over forty films and television series but also the plays in Clover (1937) and Joy to the World (1948 ) until 1968, was the father of actress Pippa Scott, who in turn married to the film producer Lee Rich had. His younger brother, Adrian Scott, who also worked as a screenwriter and film producer, was married in second marriage with actress Anne Shirley and his third wife with the screenwriter Joan Scott.
Filmography (selection)
Background literature
- Lee Server: Screenwriter: Words Become Pictures, Pitt Town 1987, p 186-203. ISBN 1555620183