Grover Jones

Grover Jones (* November 15, 1893 in Rosedale, Indiana, † September 24, 1940 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film director and screenwriter who was nominated twice for an Oscar.

Biography

Jones began in the early 1920s as a screenwriter and director in the film industry in Hollywood and turned after his debut film The Snip (1920), for which he also wrote the screenplay, another twenty, mostly silent films.

However, far more productive and successful he was as a screenwriter and wrote until his death, the originals of more than 100 films.

At the Academy Awards in 1932 he was nominated for the first time along with William Slavens McNutt for an Oscar and that for the Academy Award for best original story for Who here right? ( 1932). A second nomination was with Achmed Abdullah, John L. Balderston, William Slavens McNutt and Waldemar Young at the Academy Awards in 1936 for an Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Bengali ( 1935).

Other well-known films made by his scripts were Trouble in Paradise (1932 ), Fighting in the Mountains (1936 ), a Chain Gang in Australia ( 1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940), invasion of the Olive Branch ( 1940) and Black command ( 1940). He worked there along with famous film directors such as Stephen Roberts, Henry Hathaway, Hal Roach, John Cromwell, Richard Wallace, Ernst Lubitsch and Raoul Walsh.

About once the Hollywood film industry, he said: "The only lunatic asylum run by the inmates" ( "The only asylum run by the inmates ").

His daughter was Sue Sally Hale (1937-2003), identified herself as a man in order to play polo, and became a pioneer in the field of emancipation of women in sport.

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