George Wells (screenwriter)

George Wells ( born November 8, 1909 in New York City, New York, † November 27, 2000 in Newport Beach, California ) was an American screenwriter who won the Oscar for best original screenplay.

Life

Wells, son of vaudeville comedian Billy K. Wells studied post-school at New York University before he was first director in recordings. As such, he headed 1941 the known studio recordings of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol for Decca Records with Ronald Colman in the role of " Ebenezer Scrooge ."

The mid- 1940s he began his career as a screenwriter for film productions and acted after its debut in Till the Clouds Roll By ( 1946) by Richard Whorf in the development of some 30 films. In 1950 he received his first nomination for an award from the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award ) for the bestgeschriebene musical with Harry virtues for Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949) by Busby Berkeley. In 1951 he was nominated for two musical screenplays for the WGA Award namely the one for Three Little Words (1950 ) by Richard Thorpe, on the other, together with Sy Gomberg for Summer Stock (1950 ) by Charles Walters. In 1951 he worked on the script of the musical film adaptation of Show Boat Mississippi melody. In 1952 was his first nomination for a WGA Award for bestgeschriebene comedy with Dorothy Kingsley for Angels in the Outfield (1951 ) by Clarence Brown. In 1958 he was again nominated for two WGA Awards, this time for the comedies Do not go Near the Water (1957, co-author Dorothy Kingsley ) by Charles Walters, as well as why I have said yes? ( 1957) by Vincente Minnelli.

For this film, he finally won the Oscar for best original screenplay also at the Academy Awards in 1958.

Wells was also the author of the novel Taurus ( 1982). In 1994, the substance of Angels in the Outfield was again by William Dear titled Angels - Angels are there really! filmed.