Jerome Cady
Jerome "Jerry" John Cady ( born August 15, 1903 in Cabell County, West Virginia, † November 7, 1948 in Avalon, Santa Catalina Iceland, California ) was an American screenwriter who once for the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay was nominated. In addition, he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award and was also twice the price of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) nominated.
Life
Cady began his career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1937 at the crime film The Great Hospital Mystery by James Tinling with Jane Darwell, Sig Ruman and Sally Blane. He created up to his death, the scripts and templates for forty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1945, he was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, and indeed for the staged by Henry Hathaway war movie Mission in the Pacific ( Wing and a Prayer, 1944) with Don Ameche, Dana Andrews and William Eythe in the lead roles.
His greatest success came Cady, who died aboard his yacht from an overdose of sleeping pills, but only posthumously and with the screenplay for the belonging to the film noir thriller Call Northside 777 (Call Northside 777, 1948) by Henry Hathaway starring James Stewart, Richard Conte Lee J. Cobb: this he won in 1949 with Jay Dratler, the other writers Quentin Reynolds and Leonard Hoffman, director Henry Hathaway and producer Otto Lang the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Picture; the prize was taken by his wife in reception. In addition, he was nominated posthumously with Jay Dratler for this movie for the price of the Writers Guild of America, and indeed the one for the WGA Award for bestgeschriebene U.S. film drama other hand, to the equally awarded by the WGA Robert Meltzer Award for the screenplay with the best handling American problems.