John Bright (screenwriter)

John Milton Bright ( born January 1, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, † September 14, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter.

Biography

Bright left before the completion of high school and worked as a 13 -year-old at the Chicago Daily News as an assistant in the office of Ben Hecht. Later he worked at Kubec Glasmon in whose pharmacy located at the time the most dangerous gangster of Chicago and he also met Al Capone met. At the time he was also the hotel to visit at a banquet in Chicago Commonwealth and was beat to death with baseball bats tools, such as Al Capone gave the order, two renegade mobsters. This incident was the scene in the Brian De Palma film shot in 1987 The Untouchables - The Untouchables.

Bright itself began in 1931 as a screenwriter and was nominated along with Kubec Glasmon same for his debut, the template for the film The Public Enemy at the Academy Awards in 1931 for the Academy Award for best original story.

Other well-known films by the templates of him and were Glasmon Easy Money (1931 ) and Taxi! ( 1932). In 1933 he was one of the ten co-founders of the Guild of Writers ( Screenwriters Guild ) and wrote next to twenty other documents are also the script for you did him wrong ( 1933). Among the film directors with whom he worked, were William A. Wellman, Alfred E. Green, Roy Del Ruth and Lowell Sherman.

444145
de