George Marion, Jr.
George Marion Jr. ( born August 30, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, † February 25, 1968 in New York City, New York) was an American screenwriter and songwriter, who was nominated for the first Academy Awards in 1929 for an Oscar.
Biography
Silent era and Oscar nomination
Marion, son of actor and director George F. Marion, began his career in the film industry as a writer of intertitles for silent films. Throughout his career, he was involved in the development of around 115 films and made his debut as an author in the short film The Girl in the Saddle (1920).
As a result, he had worked with the most famous directors of the silent era together. Among the developed thereby productions include The Eagle (1925 ) by Clarence Brown, The Mystery of the Bat (1926 ) by Roland West, sparrows God ( 1926) by William Beaudine, The Son of the Sheik (1926 ) by William Beaudine, Highness incognito (1926 ) by Sidney Franklin, five minutes Angst ( 1926) by Frank Tuttle, The lady of the Camellias (1926 ) by Fred Niblo, That certain something (1927 ) by Clarence G. Badger, The Bettelpoet (1927 ) by Alan Crosland, The Venus of Venice ( 1927) by Marshall Neilan, As Madam command ( 1927) by Harry d' Abbadie d' Arrast, underworld (1927 ) Josef von Sternberg, the Schlachtenbummler (1927 ) by Lewis Milestone, the daughter of the Sheik (1927 ) by CG Badger, divorce before marriage (1927 ) of Luther Reed, the Magic Flame, Am I her type? (1927 ) by Dorothy Arzner, Riff and Raff as a womanizer (1928 ) by Ralph Ceder, The Garden of Eden (1928 ) by L. Milestone, Four Men looking port ( 1928) of CG Badger, lightning (1928 ) by Sam Taylor, L. Milestone and Viktor Tourjansky, warrant Following ( 1928) by William A. Wellman, lass is fond (1928 ) by William A. Seiter, the girl with the camera (1928 ) by CG Badger, the Lilac time (1928 ) by George Fitzmaurice and the girl from the dance bar (1928 ) by Malcolm St. Clair.
In the first Oscar ceremony in 1929 he was nominated for his overall performance for the assigned only in this ceremony Oscar in the category Best Title Writing, the price being but went to Joseph Farnham.
Beginning of the sound film and songwriter
Among his most important contributions in the early sound films include My kingdom of heaven Alfred Santell, Madame loses her dress (1932 ) by F. Tuttle, most beautiful, love me (1932 ) by Rouben Mamoulian, shipwreck under the palm trees (1934 ) by Norman Taurog, temple of beauty ( 1934) by Harlan Thompson, dance with me! ( Divorce on American, 1934) by Mark Sandrich, A gladiator named Hugo (1938 ) by Edward Sedgwick and Honesty is the best (1939 ) by George Marshall.
With the advent of the talkies began during the 1930s his career as a songwriter. His many songs include "My Sweeter Than Sweet ", " Alma Mammy ", " Bear Down, Pelham ," " I Think You'll Like It", " Prep Step" from the film Sweetie ( 1929) by Frank Tuttle, " My Future Just Passed " from Her Future ( 1930) by Mert Blumenstock, " Business Girl ", " Do You Play, madam? "," I'd Like to Be a Bee in Your Boudoir "," Pepola "," The Pick -Up "," You Appeal to Me " from Safety in Numbers (1930 ) by Victor Schertzinger, " It Seems to Be Spring ", " Let's Go Native "," My Mad moment ", " I've Gotta Yen for You ", "Joe Jazz ", " Pampa Rose," "Do I Do? " from Let's Go Native ( 1930) by Leo McCarey, "A Peach of a Pair " Follow Thru (1930 ) by Lloyd Corrigan and Laurence Schwab, " This Must Be Illegal ", "A Daisy Told Me" from Sea Legs (1930 ) by Victor Heerman, " I Look at You and a Song Is Born " from Along Came Youth (1930 ) by L. Corrigan and Norman Z. McLeod, " Adorable ", " My First Love to Last ", "My Heart's Desire" from Adorable (1933 ) by William Dieterle and " Pampa Rose" from A Princess for America (1936 ) by William K. Howard.
His most recent work as a screenwriter in a film was Beat the Band (1947 ) by John H. Auer and wrote for the film and the song " Steam is on the Beam".