Mildred Cram
Mildred Cram ( born October 17, 1889 in Washington, DC, † April 4, 1985 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American novelist and screenwriter who was nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story.
Life
Mildred Cram had their first success with the short story Stranger Things, which was included in the anthology of short stories for the O. Henry Prize in 1921. She began her career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1926 with the romantic film directed by Alfred Santell comedy The bride at the Crossroads ( Subway Sadie ) with Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall and Charles Murray in the lead roles. She created until 1960 the templates for around twenty films that were based partly on their own novels Scotch Valley, Beachcomber, Tinfoil or The Promise and her novel The feeder.
At the Academy Awards in 1940 Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey was nominated along with the Oscar for best original story, and indeed for the staged by McCarey melodrama Restless Love ( Love Affair, 1939) with Irene Dunne, Charles Boyer and Maria Ouspenskaya.
Publications
- Old seaport towns of the South, 1917
- Lotus salad, 1920
- Stranger things, 1921
- The tide, 1924
- Scotch Valley, 1928
- Forever, novella, 1935
- Kingdom of innocents, 1940
- The promise, 1949
- Born in Time, 1972
- Sir, 1973