Charles Grayson (writer)
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Charles Grayson | |
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Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. | August 15, 1903
Died | May 4, 1973 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 69)
Alma mater | University of California at Los Angeles[1] |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Years active | 1936–1958 |
Spouse | Paddy Yeatts Grayson[1] |
Charles Grayson (August 15, 1903 – May 4, 1973) was an American screenwriter. He worked on around forty films between 1936 and 1958. He worked under contract for Warner Brothers for a number of years. Although uncredited in the film final, along with Robert Buckner he was instrumental in reviving the operetta film The Desert Song (1943) by proposing an updated version of an old studio hit.[2]
Selected filmography
- Crash Donovan (1936)
- Breezing Home (1937)
- The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
- We Have Our Moments (1937)
- You're a Sweetheart (1937)
- Reckless Living (1938)
- Swing, Sister, Swing (1938)
- Tomorrow at Midnight (1939)
- Hawaiian Nights (1939)
- One Night in the Tropics (1940)
- The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
- Thieves Fall Out (1941)
- Bad Men of Missouri (1941)
- Law of the Tropics (1941)
- Underground (1941)
- Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
- The Noose Hangs High (1948)
- Outpost in Morocco (1949)
- Red Light (1949)
- The Woman on Pier 13 (1949)
- Thunder Across the Pacific (1951)
- Battle Hymn (1957)
- The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
References
- ^ a b "CHARLES GRAYSON". New York Times. May 9, 1973. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
- ^ Dick p.23
Bibliography
- Dick, Bernard F. The Star-spangled Screen: The American World War II Film. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
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