Post by kijii on Sept 20, 2017 0:48:44 GMT
A few of my favorites in random order:
Bo Goldman - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Shoot the Moon, Melvin and Howard, The Rose
Paddy Chayefsky - Marty, Network, The Americanization of Emily
John Huston - The African Queen (also directed), The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Sergeant York, High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon (directing debut), Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (also directed)
Horton Foote - To Kill a Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful (from his play), Tender Mercies, Of Mice and Men (1992), Tomorrow (from his play based on a Faulkner story)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz - All About Eve, Letter to Three Wives, No Way Out (directed all)
Herman J. Mankiewicz - Citizen Kane, Pride of the Yankees, The Enchanted Cottage
Paul Osborn - East of Eden, Wild River, Portrait of Jennie, The Yearling, Sayonara, South Pacific, On Borrowed Time (from his play)
Jay Presson Allen - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Prince of the City, Marnie, Cabaret
Casey Robinson - Dark Victory, Kings Row, Now Voyager, The Corn is Green, Captain Blood
Ernest Lehman - North by Northwest, West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Sabrina, Sweet Smell of Success, Somebody Up There Likes Me,
Walter Bernstein (blacklisted) - Fail-Safe, The Front
Irving Ravetch & Harriet Frank - Hud, Norma Rae, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Julius & Philip Epstein - Casablanca, Mr. Skeffington, Arsenic & Old Lace, Strawberry Blonde, The Man Who Came to Dinner
Budd Schulberg - On the Waterfront, A Face in the Crowd
Robert E. Sherwood - The Best Years of Our Lives, The Petrified Forest (from his play), The Bishop's Wife, Abe Lincoln in Illinois (from his play), Rebecca
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Howards End, Remains of the Day, Room with a View
Nora Ephron - Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally, Julie and Julia
Robert Anderson - The Nun's Story, The Sand Pebbles, Tea and Sympathy (from his play), I Never Sang for My Father (from his play)
Robert Rossen - The Hustler, A Walk in the Sun, The Sea Wolf, The Roaring Twenties, All the King's Men, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
Carl Foreman - High Noon, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Cyrano de Bergerac, Champion, The Men, Young Man with a Horn, The Guns of Navarone
Dalton Trumbo (blacklisted) - Exodus, Spartacus, Lonely Are the Brave, Roman Holiday (originally uncredited), Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, A Guy Named Joe, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Ben Hecht - Notorious, Spellbound, Scarface (1932), Kiss of Death, Wuthering Heights, His Girl Friday (from his play with Charles Lederer, The Front Page), Nothing Sacred
That's enough for now. Maybe more later.
Spider---
Do you know if Elmer Rice's Street Scene was a play shot as a movie...not "opened up"?
As I remember it, it did seem much like a play on film.