* Louisville, KY 29.1.1913
Education:     Harvard; Harvard Law School

Smart, capable scenarist who left a career in law after winning a playwrighting contest.
Often worked in collaboration and particularly skilled with adaptations, such as FROM
HERE TO ETERNITY (1953) (for which he won an Academy Award), PICNIC (1955)
and BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1958).

Filmografie

1939   FOR LOVE OR MONEY                   story
1939   GOLDEN BOY                              screenwriter
1940   A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN              co-screenwriter
1948   THE NOOSE HANGS HIGH              story
1949   KNOCK ON ANY DOOR                   screenwriter
1952   DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK             screenwriter
1952   RANCHO NOTORIOUS                   screenwriter
1953   FROM HERE TO ETERNITY             screenwriter
1954   DESIREE                                    screenwriter
1955   PICNIC                                      screenwriter
1956   STORM CENTER                          director, co-screenwriter, story
1958   BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE                                          screenwriter
1965   THE SABOTEUR, CODE NAME MORITURI/MORITURI         screenwriter
1966   HAWAII                                                                 screenwriter
1969   CASTLE KEEP                                                     co-screenwriter
1971   DOCTORS' WIVES                                                    screenwriter
1977   THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT                              co-screenwriter