John Van Druten

John William Van Druten ( born June 1, 1901 in London, United Kingdom, † December 19, 1957 in Indio ( California), United States) was an American author and screenwriter Dutch- British origin.

Life

Van Druten had a Dutch father and a British mother. In his hometown of London, he first attended the University College School and then the University of London, where he attended law classes. Van Druten then began to work as a lawyer and put in parallel in 1925 with Young Woodley his first stage play before. In a short time he had established himself as a playwright, Van Drutens pieces Diversion, After All, London Wall, There's Always Juliet, Somebody Knows, Behold, We Live, The Distaff Side and Flowers of the Forest ran 1928-1934 with great success London's West End theaters.

Already at the beginning of the sound era late 20s, his works were first adapted for the film, and so John Van Druten decided mid 30s to emigration to the United States. There he began to write my own screenplays from 1936. In 1939 he participated without being named in the credits, one of the various script drafts for the film classic Gone with the Wind, a year later, also unnamed, on a movie version of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. For his collaboration on the screenplay for the thriller The Gaslight Van Druten received in 1945, with Walter Reisch and John L. Balderston an Oscar nomination. Since the late 40s he was involved as a screenwriter only to television productions.

A number of Van Drutens stage templates were filmed with great success without the author was directly involved in the implementation of these substances, including " I Remember Mama" ( German Movie Title: Secret of the mother), " Bell, Book and Candle " ( German movie Title My Bell Book and Candle ) and especially " I am a Camera" 1951: After a little attention, the English film version of the play in 1955 in Munich in 1971 under the title Cabaret was remade into the musical version with enormous success.

Filmography

As Writer

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