Jay Dratler
Jay Dratler ( born September 14, 1911 in New York City, United States, † 21 September 1968, Mexico City, Mexico ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.
Life
Jay Dratler grew up in New York City, the son of an Austrian mother. After school, he attended the University of North Carolina. As part of a semester abroad, he traveled to the Sorbonne in France as well as to Vienna, where he learned fluent German. He settled first in Vienna down and began to visit the coffee companies are reported. When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, he left Austria before the upcoming port 1936 and returned back to the United States. In 1936, his debut novel Manhattan Side Street, followed by his second album Ducks in Thunder ( later All for a Woman ) 1940. This year he also moved from New York to Hollywood, where he launched a career as a screenwriter.
Dratler was particularly known as a writer of film noirs. His best-known works were password 777, for which he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award, and Laura (1944 ), which was nominated for an Oscar. In 1947 the novel The Pitfall ( filmed 1948), Judas Kiss 1955 and 1961 Doctor Paradise. His last screenplay was 1959 Wernher von Braun - I reach for the stars. This was followed by several more screenplays for television series and stage plays.
Dratler died suddenly of a heart attack in 1968 in Mexico City, where he had settled the mid-1960s.