William Anthony McGuire
William Anthony McGuire ( born July 9, 1881 in Chicago, Illinois, † September 16, 1940 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California ) was an American playwright and screenwriter who was nominated once for an Academy Award for best original story.
Life
McGuire worked as a playwright on Broadway and wrote the stage play The Heights, which premiered in early 1910 on Broadway, his first play. A short time later, he began his work as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood and initially wrote the film scenarios for silent films such as the short film The Devil, the Servant and the Man (1912 ) by Frank Beal with Kathlyn Williams, William Stowell and Charles Clary. In addition to his work in the film industry he created in the 1920s also plays for Broadway, where he worked together with figures such as Victor Herbert, Otto Harbach, Will Rogers. His play The Nervous Wreck provided the basis for the 1928 musical premiered Whoopee! and the resulting 1930 film Whoopee! by Thornton Freeland.
At the Academy Awards in 1937 McGuire was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay, and indeed for the musical film The Great Ziegfeld ( The Great Ziegfeld, 1936) by Robert Z. Leonard with William Powell in the title role as Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. and Luise Rainer and Myrna Loy in other major roles.