Ernest Vajda
Ernő Vajda ( Hungarian spelling ), also: Erno Vajda, Ernst Vajda, pseudonym: Sidney Garrick ( born May 27, 1886 in Komárno, then Austria - Hungary, now Slovakia, † April 3, 1954 in Woodland Hills, California ) was a Hungarian screenwriter.
Life
Ernest Vajda, born Ernő Vajda wrote at the beginning of his work as an author in Hungary comedies and musical romances. After the end of World War II, the production company Sascha film industry from Vienna engaged him as screenwriters. Vajda worked among others with the director Alexander Korda together. Mid-20s he moved to the United States. Initially only as a template writer for screenplays of other writers, he wrote from 1927 on, even screenplays. Very successful he was as a co- author of several films by Ernst Lubitsch. From the late 1930s his style was no longer in demand and Vajda finished his work as an author for the film.