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Mary C. McCall Jr.
Born April 4, 1904
New York, New York, U.S.
Died April 3, 1986 (aged 81)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Screenwriter Spouse Dwight Franklin (divorced) Children 3 [1]
Mary C. McCall Jr. (April 4, 1904 – April 3, 1986) was an American writer best known for her screenwriting .[2] Writers Guild of America (then known as the Screen Writers Guild), serving from 1942 to 1944 and 1951 to 1952.[3] [4]
Biography [ edit ]
Mary C. McCall Jr. was born on April 4, 1904, to a wealthy Irish American family in New York. She wanted to be a writer from the time she was in first grade.[5] Vassar College and Trinity College, Dublin , she began writing advertising copy and fiction.[2] [4]
In 1932, McCall published her first novel, The Goldfish Bowl , a satirical comedy loosely based on Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh .[6] Warner Bros. , but McCall did not get to write the screenplay for the film version, It's Tough to Be Famous Douglas Fairbanks Jr. [5] Street of Women [6] Scarlet Dawn Russian Revolution titled Revolt .[3] [7] Screen Writers Guild .[2] [8]
McCall became an associate member of the Guild in 1934 and served her first of six terms on the executive board in 1935.[9] [10] [11]
During her career, McCall wrote for Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures , and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . Among her screen credits are the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream , Craig's Wife The Fighting Sullivans Mr. Belvedere Goes to College Dark Dame into Maisie Maisie series. McCall wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten films in the series.[2]
In the 1950s and 1960s, she branched out into television, being credited with four episodes of The Millionaire Sea Hunt I Dream of Jeannie Gilligan's Island Cosmopolitan Redbook Collier's The Saturday Evening Post [12]
McCall was one of many who clashed with the conservative Motion Picture Alliance .[13] House Un-American Activities Committee against reports that she was a communist sympathizer.[3] [7] California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities of the General Research Committee in its report to the California Senate .[14]
Mary C. McCall Jr. died of "complications of cancer" at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital , one day shy of her 82nd birthday.[4]
She was the first recipient of the Writers Guild's Valentine Davies Award in 1962. In 1985, she also received the Guild's Edmund J. North Award.
Complete filmography [ edit ]
Scarlet Dawn
Desirable
Babbitt
The Secret Bride
The Woman in Red
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Dr. Socrates
Snowed Under
Craig's Wife
Ready, Willing, and Able
Women of Glamour
I Promise to Pay
It's All Yours
A Slight Case of Murder
Secrets of an Actress
Breaking the Ice
Dramatic School
Maisie
Congo Maisie
Gold Rush Maisie
Maisie Was a Lady
Ringside Maisie
Kathleen
On the Sunny Side
Maisie Gets Her Man
Panama Hattie
Swing Shift Maisie
The Fighting Sullivans
Reward Unlimited
Maisie Goes to Reno
Keep Your Powder Dry
Mr. Belvedere Goes to College
Thunderbirds
Ride the Man Down
Slim Carter
Juke Box Rhythm
References [ edit ]
^ a b c "Past Presidents / Mary C. McCall Jr" . Writers Guild of America. Archived from the original on June 7, 2012. Retrieved October 10, 2009 .
^ a b c "Mary C. McCall, screenwriter, dies" . The San Burnardino County Sun Newspapers.com .
^ a b Smyth, J. E. (2 March 2018). Nobody's Girl Friday : The Women Who Ran Hollywood . p. 123. ISBN 9780190840839 OCLC 1023575960 .
^ a b Smyth, pp. 123-124.
^ a b Slide, Anthony (November 25, 2014). "It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age ISBN 9780231538220 . Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
^ Wilson, Victoria (November 12, 2013). A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940 ISBN 9781439199985 . Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
^ Smyth, pp. 119-120.
^ Smyth, p. 135.
^ Hughes, Eric (February 5, 2009). "Who is Mary C. McCall Jr.?" . www.thewrap.com . Retrieved 2019-05-12 .
^ "Stories Listed by Author" . The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on October 5, 2009. Retrieved October 10, 2009 .
^ Sbardellati, John (May 1, 2012). J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood's Cold War ISBN 9780801464683 . Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
^ "The Case of Mary McCall" . Online Archive of California . Retrieved July 24, 2016 .
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