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1920s

• 1928 Underworld
  Underworld (1927 film)
  
  Underworld is a 1927 in film silent film directed by Josef von Sternberg. Originally, it was to have been directed by Arthur Rosson, but he was fired by Paramount Pictures....
   - Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht
  
  Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
  
• The Last Command
  The Last Command (film)
  
  The Last Command is a silent film, written by John F. Goodrich and Herman J. Mankiewicz, from a story by Lajos Bir?, and directed by Josef von Sternberg....
   - Lajos Biró
  Lajos Biró
  
  Lajos B?r? was a Hungary novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who wrote many films from the early 1920s through the late 1940s. He was born in Nagyv?rad, Austria-Hungary and eventually moved to the United Kingdom where he worked as a scenario chief for London Film Productions run by Alexander Korda....
  
• The Patent Leather Kid
  The Patent Leather Kid
  
  The Patent Leather Kid is a 1927 in film silent film which tells the story of a boxer who scoffs at fighting outside the ring... particularly for the United States once it enters World War I....
   - Rupert Hughes
  Rupert Hughes
  
  Rupert Hughes was a historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood. Hughes was born in Lancaster, Missouri. His parents were Felix Turner Hughes and Jean Amelia Summerlin, who were married in 1865....
  
• 1929 None given

1930s

• 1930 None given
• 1931 The Dawn Patrol - John Monk Saunders
  John Monk Saunders
  
  John Monk Saunders was an American novelist, screenwriter and movie director, born in Hinckley, Minnesota on 22 November 1897.Saunders was married first to Avis Hughes from 1922 to 1927 then to the actress Fay Wray from 1928 to 1939, with whom he had a daughter....
  
• Doorway to Hell - Rowland Brown
• Laughter
  Laughter (film)
  
  Laughter is a 1930 film directed by Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast and starring Fredric March, Nancy Carroll and Frank Morgan.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story....
   - Harry D'Arrast, Douglas Doty
  Douglas Z. Doty
  
  Douglas Z. Doty , was an American screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for 63 films between 1920 in film and 1938 in film, the last one being Always Goodbye released in 1938, three years after his death....
  , Donald Stewart
• The Public Enemy
  The Public Enemy
  
  The Public Enemy is a pre-Code Cinema of the United States crime film drama film film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman....
   - John Bright, Kubec Glasmon
• Smart Money - Lucien Hubbard, Joseph Jackson
• 1932 The Champ
  The Champ
  
  The Champ is a 1931 in film movie that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Frances Marion, Leonard Praskins and Wanda Tuchock, and directed by King Vidor....
   - Frances Marion
  Frances Marion
  
  Frances Marion was an United States journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos...
  
• Lady and Gent
  Lady and Gent
  
  Lady and Gent is a 1932 in film film starring John Wayne....
   - Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt
  William Slavens McNutt
  
  William Slavens McNutt , was an American screenwriter. He wrote for 28 films between 1922 in film and 1939 in film. He was nominated for an Academy Award on two separate occasions....
  
• Star Witness - Lucien Hubbard
• What Price Hollywood?
  What Price Hollywood?
  
  What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 in film Cinema of the United States drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St....
   - Adela St. John
• 1933 One Way Passage
  One Way Passage
  
  One Way Passage is a romantic film starring William Powell and Kay Francis as star-crossed lovers, directed by Tay Garnett and released by Warner Bros....
   - Robert Lord
• The Prizefighter and the Lady
  The Prizefighter and the Lady
  
  The Prizefighter and the Lady is a 1933 in film black-and-white Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crime film romance film comedy film starring Myrna Loy, Max Baer , Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey, and Walter Huston....
   - Frances Marion
  Frances Marion
  
  Frances Marion was an United States journalist, author, and screenwriter often cited as the most renowned female screenwriter of the twentieth century alongside June Mathis and Anita Loos...
  
• Rasputin and the Empress
  Rasputin and the Empress
  
  Rasputin and the Empress is a 1932 in film film starring the Barrymore siblings, John Barrymore , Ethel Barrymore , and Lionel Barrymore .This is the only film starring all three siblings.The film's inaccurate portrayal of Prince Felix and Irina Yusupov as Prince Chegodieff and Princess Natasha caused a big lawsuit against MGM....
   - Charles MacArthur
• 1934 Manhattan Melodrama
  Manhattan Melodrama
  
  Manhattan Melodrama is a 1934 in film crime melodrama film, produced by MGM.It was film director by W. S. Van Dyke and stars Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Leo Carrillo, Nat Pendleton, and Isabel Jewell....
   - Arthur Caesar
• Hide Out - Mauri Grashin
• The Richest Girl in the World - Norman Krasna
  Norman Krasna
  
  Norman Krasna was an Academy Award winning United States screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning Screwball comedy film, melodrama, and early film noir....
  
• 1935 The Scoundrel
  The Scoundrel
  
  The Scoundrel is a drama film directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and starring Noel Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, and Lionel Stander....
   - Ben Hecht
  Ben Hecht
  
  Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
  , Charles MacArthur
• Broadway Melody of 1936
  Broadway Melody of 1936
  
  Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by MGM in 1935 in film, despite the title. It was a follow up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody, which had been released in 1929 in film, although beyond the title and some music there is no story connection with the earlier film....
   - Moss Hart
  Moss Hart
  
  Moss Hart was an American playwright and theatre director of plays and musical theater....
  
• The Gay Deception - Stephen Avery, Don Hartman
• Write in Candidate: G-Men - Gregory Rogers (pseudonym of Darryl F. Zanuck
  Darryl F. Zanuck
  
  Darryl Francis Zanuck was an Academy Award-winning Film producer, writer, actor, Film director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors ....
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• 1936 The Story of Louis Pasteur
  The Story of Louis Pasteur
  
  The Story of Louis Pasteur is a 1936 in film biographical film. It starred Paul Muni as the Louis Pasteur. It was written by Toni Pollastre and Sheridan Gibney, and Edward Chodorov , and directed by William Dieterle....
   - Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney
• Fury
  Fury (1936 film)
  
  Fury is a drama film which tells the story of an innocent man who narrowly escapes being Lynching and the revenge he seeks. Directed by Fritz Lang, the film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and stars Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney and features Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot, Edward Ellis and Walter Brennan....
   - Norman Krasna
  Norman Krasna
  
  Norman Krasna was an Academy Award winning United States screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning Screwball comedy film, melodrama, and early film noir....
  
• The Great Ziegfeld
  The Great Ziegfeld
  
  The Great Ziegfeld is a musical film produced by MGM. Although the film is a fictionalized biography of Florenz Ziegfeld from his show business beginnings to his death, it showcases a series of spectacular musical productions....
   - William McGuire
• San Francisco
  San Francisco (film)
  
  San Francisco is a 1936 in film Drama film-adventure film directed by Woody Van Dyke, based on the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The film, which was the top grossing movie of that year, stars Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, and Spencer Tracy....
   - Robert Hopkins
  Robert Hopkins (screenwriter)
  
  Robert E. Hopkins was an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the 1936 film San Francisco ....
  
• Three Smart Girls
  Three Smart Girls
  
  Three Smart Girls is a Musical film comedy film. The Craig sisters, played by Barbara Read, Nan Grey and Deanna Durbin in her first feature film role, travel to New York City to prevent their father from remarrying....
   - Adele Commandini
• 1937 A Star Is Born
  A Star Is Born (1937 film)
  
  A Star Is Born is a 1937 Romance film drama film film producer by David O. Selznick and film director by William A. Wellman, with a script by Wellman, Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell ....
   - Robert Carson, William Wellman
  William A. Wellman
  
  William Augustus Wellman was an United States movie director, noted for directing the film which received the first Academy Award for Best Picture, Wings ....
  
• Black Legion
  Black Legion (film)
  
  Black Legion is a 1937 in film movie, starring Humphrey Bogart and Erin O'Brien-Moore in a fictionalized story about the real-life Black Legion of the 1930s....
   - Robert Lord
• In Old Chicago
  In Old Chicago
  
  In Old Chicago is a 1937 in film dramatic film. It tells the story of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, with a fictionalized plot, the story of the two sons of Mrs....
   - Niven Busch
• The Life of Emile Zola
  The Life of Emile Zola
  
  The Life of ?mile Zola is a 1937 in film biographical film of famous French author ?mile Zola. It depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul C?zanne and his involvement in the Dreyfus affair....
   - Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg
• One Hundred Men and a Girl
  One Hundred Men and a Girl
  
  One Hundred Men and a Girl is a 1937 in film musical comedy film, written by Charles Kenyon, Bruce Manning and James Mulhauser from a story by Hanns Kr?ly and directed by Henry Koster....
   - Hans Kraly
• 1938 Boys Town
  Boys Town (1938 film)
  
  Boys Town is a biographical film drama film based on Edward J. Flanagan's work with a group of disadvantaged and delinquent boys in a home that he founded and named "Girls and Boys Town"....
   - Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary
  Dore Schary
  
  Isidore 'Dore' Schary was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright.Graduate of Central High School, Newark, New Jersey, Class of 1923....
  
• Alexander's Ragtime Band
  Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
  
  Alexander's Ragtime Band is a film, released by Twentieth Century Fox, that takes off from the 1911 Irving Berlin song "Alexander's Ragtime Band", to tell a story of a society boy who scandalizes his family by pursuing a career in ragtime instead of in "serious" music....
   - Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  
  Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  
• Angels with Dirty Faces
  Angels with Dirty Faces
  
  Angels with Dirty Faces is a Warner Bros. gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O'Brien , the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft ....
   - Rowland Brown
• Blockade - John Howard Lawson
  John Howard Lawson
  
  John Howard Lawson was an United States writer, and head of the Hollywood division of the American Communist Party. He was also the cell's cultural commissar, and answered directly to V.J....
  
• Mad About Music
  Mad About Music
  
  Mad About Music is a 1938 in film musical film about a girl at an exclusive boarding school who invents an exciting father. When her schoolmates doubt his existence, she has to produce him....
   - Marcella Burke, Frederick Kohner
• Test Pilot
  Test Pilot (film)
  
  Test Pilot Is a 1938 film directed by Victor Fleming. Featuring Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy, and Lionel Barrymore, it tells the story of a daredevil test pilot, his wife and his best friend....
   - Frank Wead
• 1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  
  Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an Cinema of the United States comedy film/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on Politics of the United States....
   - Lewis Foster
• Bachelor Mother
  Bachelor Mother
  
  Bachelor Mother is an United States comedy film directed by Garson Kanin, and starring Ginger Rogers , David Niven, and Charles Coburn. The screenplay was written by Norman Krasna based on a story by Felix Jackson ....
   - Felix Jackson
• Love Affair - Mildred Cram, Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
  
• Ninotchka
  Ninotchka
  
  Ninotchka is a 1939 in film American film made for Metro Goldwyn Mayer by producer and director Ernst Lubitsch which stars Greta Garbo and Melvyn Douglas....
   - Melchior Lengyel
• Young Mr. Lincoln
  Young Mr. Lincoln
  
  Young Mr. Lincoln is a 1939 in film fictionalized biography/drama film about the early life of President Abraham Lincoln, directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda....
   - Lamar Trotti

1940s

• 1940 Arise, My Love
  Arise, My Love
  
  Arise, My Love is a 1940 in film film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett and Jacques Th?ry, and starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland....
   - Benjamin Glazer, John Toldy
• Comrade X
  Comrade X
  
  Comrade X is a 1940 in film lighthearted spy movie, starring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr and directed by King Vidor....
   - Walter Reisch
  Walter Reisch
  
  Walter Reisch was an Austrians-born, director and Academy Award-winning screenwriter....
  
• Edison, the Man
  Edison, the Man
  
  Edison, the Man was a 1940 in film biographical film depicting the life of inventor Thomas Edison, who was played by Spencer Tracy. Much of the film's script fictionalizes or exaggerates the real events of Edison's life....
   - Hugo Butler, Dore Schary
  Dore Schary
  
  Isidore 'Dore' Schary was an American motion picture director, writer, and producer, and playwright.Graduate of Central High School, Newark, New Jersey, Class of 1923....
  
• My Favorite Wife
  My Favorite Wife
  
  My Favorite Wife is a 1940 in film screwball comedy starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant that tells the story of a woman returning home to her husband and children after being shipwrecked on a tropical island for seven years....
   - Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
  , Bella Spewack, Samuel Spewack
• The Westerner - Stuart Lake
• 1941 Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan
  
  Here Comes Mr. Jordan is a comedy film in which a boxer, mistakenly taken to Heaven before his time, is given a second chance back on Earth....
   - Harry Segall
• Ball of Fire
  Ball of Fire
  
  Ball of Fire is a 1941 in film comedy film about a group of professors laboring for years to write an encyclopedia and their encounter with a nightclub performer who provides her own unique knowledge....
   - Thomas Monroe, Billy Wilder
  Billy Wilder
  
  Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
  
• The Lady Eve
  The Lady Eve
  
  The Lady Eve is a screwball comedy film about a mismatched couple who meet on a Ocean liner, written by Preston Sturges based on a story by Monckton Hoffe, and directed by Sturges, his third directorial effort, after The Great McGinty and Christmas in July....
   - Monckton Hoffe
• Meet John Doe
  Meet John Doe
  
  Meet John Doe is a 1941 in film comedy film drama film film directed and produced by Frank Capra and starring Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck....
   - Richard Connell, Robert Presnell
• Night Train to Munich
  Night Train to Munich
  
  Night Train to Munich is a 1940 in film British thriller film. It was directed by Carol Reed, with writing credits by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder....
   - Gordon Wellesley
• 1942 49th Parallel (The Invaders)
  Forty-Ninth Parallel
  
  49th Parallel is the third film made by the Cinema of the United Kingdom writer-director team of Powell and Pressburger. It was released in the United States as The Invaders....
   - Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger
  
  Emeric Pressburger was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian people/British people screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is known for his series of Powell and Pressburger with Michael Powell ....
  
• Holiday Inn
  Holiday Inn (film)
  
  Holiday Inn is a 1942 film starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, which featured the music of Irving Berlin. The film features twelve new songs, one brief use of "Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," written in 1917 for the World War I musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" which was reprised on Broadway in 1942 under the title "This Is the Army"...
   - Irving Berlin
  Irving Berlin
  
  Irving Berlin was a Jewish American composer and lyricist, and one of the most prolific American songwriters in history. Berlin was one of the few Tin Pan Alley/Broadway theater songwriters who wrote both lyrics and music for his songs....
  
• The Pride of the Yankees
  The Pride of the Yankees
  
  The Pride of the Yankees is a 1942 biographical film directed by Sam Wood about the New York Yankees baseball player, first baseman Lou Gehrig, who had his career cut short at 36 years of age when he was stricken with the fatal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ....
   - Paul Gallico
• The Talk of the Town - Sidney Harmon
• Yankee Doodle Dandy
  Yankee Doodle Dandy
  
  Yankee Doodle Dandy is a biopic about George M. Cohan, the actor-singer-dancer-playwright-songwriter-producer-theatre owner-director-choreographer known as "The Man Who Owns Broadway", starring James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston and Richard Whorf, and featuring Irene Manning, George Tobias, Rosemary DeCamp and Jeanne Cagney....
   - Robert Buckner
• 1943 The Human Comedy
  The Human Comedy (film)
  
  The Human Comedy is a 1943 in film drama film directed by Clarence Brown and adapted by Howard Estabrook. It is often thought to be based on the novel of the The Human Comedy , but actually Saroyan wrote the screenplay first, was fired from the movie project, and quickly wrote the novel and published it just before the movie was released...
   - William Saroyan
  William Saroyan
  
  William Saroyan was an American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno, California....
  
• Action in the North Atlantic
  Action in the North Atlantic
  
  Action in the North Atlantic is a 1943 in film war film, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Raymond Massey as sailors in the Allied merchant marine in World War II and directed by Lloyd Bacon....
   - Guy Gilpatric
  Guy Gilpatric
  
  John Guy Gilpatric was an United States pilot, flight instructor, journalist, short story author and novelist, best known for his Mr. Glencannon stories....
  
• Destination Tokyo
  Destination Tokyo
  
  Destination Tokyo is a propaganda film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. in 1943 in film. It was directed by Delmer Daves and starred Cary Grant and John Garfield....
   - Steve Fisher
• The More the Merrier
  The More the Merrier
  
  The More the Merrier is a 1943 in film comedy film made by Columbia Pictures which makes fun of the housing shortage during World War II, especially in Washington, D.C.....
   - Frank Ross, Robert Russell
• Shadow of a Doubt
  Shadow of a Doubt
  
  Shadow of a Doubt is a Thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson and Alma Reville. It stars Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Collinge, Henry Travers and Hume Cronyn....
   - Gordon McDonell
• 1944 Going My Way
  Going My Way
  
  For the 1962-1963 American Broadcasting Company television series of the same name, starring Gene Kelly, Leo G. Carroll, and Dick York, see Going My Way ....
   - Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
  
• A Guy Named Joe
  A Guy Named Joe
  
  A Guy Named Joe is a 1943 in film film made by MGM, directed by Victor Fleming, produced by Everett Riskin, from a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, adapted by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan from a story by Chandler Sprague and David Boehm....
   - David Boehm
  David Boehm
  
  David Boehm was an USA screenwriter.He is best known for the 1944 World War II heavenly fantasy A Guy Named Joe , for which he received an Academy Award nomination....
  , Chandler Sprague
• Lifeboat
  Lifeboat (film)
  
  Lifeboat is a 1944 World War II war film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock from a story written by John Steinbeck. The film stars Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak, Mary Anderson , John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Heather Angel , Hume Cronyn and Canada Lee, and is set entirely on a Lifeboat ....
   - John Steinbeck
  John Steinbeck
  
  John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
  
• None Shall Escape
  None Shall Escape
  
  None Shall Escape is a 1944 in film war film. Even though the film was made during World War II, the setting is a post war Nuremberg Trials style war crimes trial....
   - Alfred Neumann, Joseph Than
• The Sullivans
  The Sullivans
  
  The Sullivans was an Australian made drama television series produced by Crawford Productions which ran from 1976 until 1983. The series told the story of an average middle-class Melbourne family and the effect World War II had on their lives....
   - Edward Doherty
  Eddie Doherty
  
  Edward J. "Eddie" Doherty was a famed United States newspaper reporter, best-selling author, Academy Awards-nominated screenwriter, co-founder of the Madonna House Apostolate, and later ordained a priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church....
  , Jules Schermer
• 1945 The House on 92nd St. - Charles Booth
  Charles Booth
  
  Charles Booth can refer to:*Frederick Charles Booth, Victoria Cross winner*Charles Stephen Booth, Canadian member of parliament from 1940 to 1945...
  
• The Affairs of Susan
  The Affairs of Susan
  
  The Affairs of Susan is a 1945 comedy film starring Joan Fontaine, Walter Abel, George Brent, Dennis O'Keefe and Don DeFore. The plot concerns Susan , who is about to be married....
   - Laszlo Gorog, Thomas Monroe
• A Medal for Benny
  A Medal for Benny
  
  A Medal for Benny is a 1945 United States film directed by Irving Pichel. The story was conceived by writer Jack Wagner , who enlisted his longtime friend John Steinbeck to help him put it into script form....
   - John Steinbeck
  John Steinbeck
  
  John Ernst Steinbeck III was an American literature. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937....
  , Jack Wagner
• Objective, Burma!
  Objective, Burma!
  
  Objective, Burma! is a 1945 in film movie which depicts American commandos fighting extensively in the China Burma India Theater of World War II....
   - Alvah Bessie
  Alvah Bessie
  
  Alvah Cecil Bessie was a New York City-born United States novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten....
  
• A Song to Remember
  A Song to Remember
  
  A Song to Remember is a 1945 in film Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of Polish pianist and composer Fryderyk Chopin....
   - Ernst Marischka
• 1946 Vacation from Marriage - Clemence Dane
• The Dark Mirror - Vladimir Pozner
• The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
  
  The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in , starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut....
   - Jack Patrick
• The Stranger
  The Stranger (1946 film)
  
  The Stranger 1946 in film film noir/drama starring Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young. Welles also directed the film, which was based on an Oscar-nominated screenplay written by Victor Trivas....
   - Victor Trivas
• To Each His Own
  To Each His Own (film)
  
  To Each His Own is a 1946 film directed by Mitchell Leisen, which tells the story of Jody Norris , who falls in love with a pilot . He goes off to fight in World War I, leaving Jody to give birth to their son....
   - Charles Brackett
• 1947 Miracle on 34th Street
  Miracle on 34th Street
  
  Miracle on 34th Street is a 1947 film written by Valentine Davies, directed by George Seaton, and starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne , Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn....
   - Valentine Davies
• A Cage of Nightingales
  A Cage of Nightingales
  
  A Cage of Nightingales is a 1945 in film Cinema of France film directed by Jean Dr?ville. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, and served as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus ....
   - Georges Chaperot
  Georges Chaperot
  
  Georges Chaperot is a French people screenwriter who co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales with Ren? Wheeler, for which they both received an Academy Award for Best Story nomination in 20th Academy Awards....
  , René Wheeler
  René Wheeler
  
  Ren? Wheeler was a French people screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award for Best Story nomination in 20th Academy Awards....
  
• It Happened on Fifth Avenue - Herbert Lewis, Frederick Stephani
• Kiss of Death
  Kiss of Death (1947 film)
  
  Kiss of Death is a 1947 in film film noir movie directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Ben Hecht and Charles Lederer from a story by Eleazar Lipsky....
   - Eleazar Lipsky
• Smash Up - The Story of a Woman - Frank Cavett, Dorothy Parker
• 1948 The Search
  The Search
  
  The Search is a 1948 film directed by Fred Zinnemann which tells the story of a young Auschwitz survivor and his mother who search for each other across post-World War II Europe....
   - Richard Schweizer, David Wechsler
• The Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty
  Robert J. Flaherty
  
  Robert Joseph Flaherty was an American filmmaker who directed and produced the first commercially successful feature length documentary film in 1922....
  , Frances H. Flaherty
  Frances H. Flaherty
  
  Frances Hubbard Flaherty was married to acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty from 1914 until his death in 1951. They had three children....
  
• The Naked City
  The Naked City
  
  The Naked City is a 1948 in film black-and-white film noir directed by Jules Dassin. The movie, shot in Semidocumentary style, was filmed on location on the streets of New York City, featuring landmarks such as the Williamsburg Bridge and the Whitehall Building in Manhattan....
   - Marvin Wald
• Red River
  Red River (film)
  
  Red River is a 1948 in film western film giving a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail....
   - Borden Chase
  Borden Chase
  
  Borden Chase was an United Statesn writer.Born Frank Fowler, he went through an assortment of jobs, including driving for gangster Frankie Yale and working as a sandhog on the construction of New York City's Holland Tunnel, before turning to writing, first short stories and novels, and later, screenplays....
  
• The Red Shoes
  The Red Shoes (film)
  
  The Red Shoes is a United Kingdom feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as Powell and Pressburger....
   - Emeric Pressburger
  Emeric Pressburger
  
  Emeric Pressburger was an Academy Award-winning Hungarian people/British people screenwriter, film director, and producer. He is known for his series of Powell and Pressburger with Michael Powell ....
  
• 1949 Stratton Story - Douglas Morrow
• Come to the Stable
  Come to the Stable
  
  Come to the Stable is a 1949 film which tells the story of two France nuns who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital....
   - Clare Luce
• It Happens Every Spring
  It Happens Every Spring
  
  It Happens Every Spring is a movie which was made in 1949. The story is completely fictitious, and the main character King Kelly is not based on or related to the King Kelly....
   - Valentine Davies, Shirley Smith
• Sands of Iwo Jima
  Sands of Iwo Jima
  
  Sands of Iwo Jima is a 1949 in film war film which follows a group of United States Marine Corps from training to the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II....
   - Harry Brown
• White Heat
  White Heat
  
  White Heat may refer to:In film:* White Heat, a 1949 film starring James CagneyIn music:* White Light/White Heat, a 1968 album by The Velvet Underground...
   - Virginia Kellogg
  Virginia Kellogg
  
  Virginia Kellogg was a film writer whose scripts for White Heat and Caged were nominated for Academy Awardss.At one time, she was married to film director Frank Lloyd....
  

1950s

• 1950 Panic in the Streets - Edna Anhalt
  Edna Anhalt
  
  Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt enjoyed some considerable success in a ten year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957....
  , Edward Anhalt
  Edward Anhalt
  
  After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt teamed with his second wife Edna Anhalt, during World War II to write Pulp fiction ....
  
• Bitter Rice
  Bitter Rice
  
  Bitter Rice , is a 1949 in film Cinema of Italy film made by Lux Film, written and directed by Giuseppe De Santis.Produced by Dino De Laurentiis, starring Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Doris Dowling and Vittorio Gassman, Bitter Rice was a commercial success in Europe and America....
   - Giuseppe De Santis
  Giuseppe de Santis
  
  Giuseppe De Santis was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealism filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform....
  , Carlo Lizzani
  Carlo Lizzani
  
  Carlo Lizzani is an Italian film director, scriptwriter and critic.Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice ....
  
• The Gunfighter - William Bowers, Andre de Toth
• Mystery Street
  Mystery Street
  
  Mystery Street is a black-and-white film noir directed by John Sturges with cinematography by famed Photographer John Alton. The MGM film was shot on location in Boston and Cape Cod....
   - Leonard Spigelglass
• When Willie Comes Marching Home - Sy Gomberg
• 1951 Seven Days to Noon
  Seven Days to Noon
  
  Seven Days to Noon is a 1950 in film United Kingdom drama film / thriller film directed by John Boulting and Roy Boulting. Paul Dehn and James Bernard won the Academy Award for Best Story for this film....
   - James Bernard
  James Bernard
  
  James Bernard was a British film composer.He is remembered almost exclusively for the music he composed for the Hammer Horror of the 1950s, '60s and '70s....
  , Paul Dehn
  Paul Dehn
  
  Paul Dehn was a Great Britain screenwriter....
  
• The Bullfighter and the Lady
  The Bullfighter and the Lady
  
  Bullfighter and the Lady is a 1951 in film drama film directed and written by Budd Boetticher. Filmed on location in Mexico, the film focused on the realities of the dangerous sport of bullfighting....
   - Budd Boetticher
  Budd Boetticher
  
  Oscar "Budd" Boetticher, Jr. was a film director during the classical period in Hollywood most famous for the series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott....
  , Ray Nazarro
  Ray Nazarro
  
  Ray Nazarro was an United States Film director and television director, Television producer, and screenwriter...
  
• The Frogmen - Oscar Millard
• Here Comes the Groom
  Here Comes the Groom
  
  Here Comes the Groom is a 1951 Musical film romantic comedy film starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman. Directed and produced by Frank Capra, the film was released by Paramount Pictures....
   - Liam O'Brian, Robert Riskin
  Robert Riskin
  
  Robert Riskin was an United States screenwriter and playwright, best known for his collaborations with director-producer Frank Capra.Riskin began his career as a playwright, writing for many local New York City playhouses....
  
• Teresa -Alfred Hayes, Stewart Stern
• 1952 The Greatest Show on Earth
  The Greatest Show on Earth
  
  The Greatest Show on Earth is a List of American films of 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The film was produced, directed, and narrated by Cecil B....
   - Frank Cavett, Frederic Frank, Theodore St. John
• My Son John - Leo McCarey
  Leo McCarey
  
  Thomas Leo McCarey was an Academy Awards-winning United States film director, screenwriter and film producer . During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his fine elegance and his great sense of humour....
  
• The Narrow Margin
  The Narrow Margin
  
  The Narrow Margin is an United States film noir directed by Richard Fleischer and written by Earl Belton, based on an unpublished story written by Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard....
   - Martin Goldsmith, Jack Leonard
• The Pride of Saint Louis - Guy Trosper
  Guy Trosper
  
  'Guy Trosper' was an United States screenwriter. He came to prominence in Hollywood thanks to his scripts for two baseball movies: The Stratton Story in 1949, a big hit for James Stewart , and The Pride of St....
  
• The Sniper - Edward Anhalt
  Edward Anhalt
  
  After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathe and CBS-TV, Edward Anhalt teamed with his second wife Edna Anhalt, during World War II to write Pulp fiction ....
  , Edna Anhalt
  Edna Anhalt
  
  Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt enjoyed some considerable success in a ten year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957....
  
• 1953 Roman Holiday - Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  
  Dalton Trumbo was an United States screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry....
   (Note: The screen credit and award was originally credited to Ian McLellan Hunter
  Ian McLellan Hunter
  
  Ian McLellan Hunter was an English screenwriter, most noted for front ing for the Hollywood blacklist Dalton Trumbo as the credited writer of Roman Holiday in 1953....
  , who was a front for Trumbo. On December 15, 1992, the Board of Governors voted to retrospectively attribute the award to Trumbo. Hunter's name was removed. Although Trumbo had died some years earlier, he had been alive in 1954 and this is not considered a posthumous award
  List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
  
  This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
  )
• Above and Beyond
  Above and Beyond (film)
  
  Above and Beyond is a 1952 in film film about Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. It starred Robert Taylor as Tibbets and Eleanor Parker as his wife....
   - Beirne Lay
• The Captain's Paradise
  The Captain's Paradise
  
  The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 in film Cinema of the United Kingdom comedy starring Alec Guinness and directed by Anthony Kimmins. It is set in Gibraltar and northern Morocco, and on a ship that travels between them....
   - Alec Coppel
• Hondo
  Hondo (film)
  
  Hondo is a 1953 western film starring John Wayne. It is somewhat a retelling of Hamlet, in that Hondo kills a young boy's father, marries the boy's mother, and becomes a father figure for the boy....
   - Louis L'Amour (Note: Originally announced on February 15, 1954 as a nominee in this category. On February 17, 1954, letters from the producer and nominee questioned its inclusion in the category, as it was based on the short story, "The Gift of Cochise", by the nominee, Mr. L'Amour, published in Collier's magazine on July 5, 1952. By waiver, the title of the short story was not included in the film's credits. The nomination was withdrawn, and only four nominees were included on the final ballot. The Academy thanked Mr. L'Amour and despite this incident, offered him a membership in the Academy.)
• Little Fugitive
  Little Fugitive
  
  Little Fugitive is film written and directed by Raymond Abrashkin , Morris Engel and Ruth Orkin. It stars Richard Brewster, Winifred Cushing, Jay Williams, and others....
   - Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin
• 1954 Broken Lance
  Broken Lance
  
  Broken Lance is a 1954 in film Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox, directed by Edward Dmytryk and produced by Sol C. Siegel. The movie stars Spencer Tracy and features Katy Jurado, Richard Widmark, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, and Hugh O'Brian....
   - Philip Yordan
• Bread, Love and Dreams - Ettore Margadonna
  Ettore Margadonna
  
  Ettore Margadonna was an Italian people screenwriter. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film Bread, Love and Dreams ....
  
• Forbidden Games - François Boyer
• Night People
  Night People (1954 film)
  
  Night People is a 1954 motion picture, starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Bjork and Buddy Ebsen, and directed by Nunnally Johnson....
   - Jed Harris, Tom Reed
• There's No Business Like Show Business
  There's No Business Like Show Business (film)
  
  There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox film that was released on December 16, 1954. The title is borrowed from the There's No Business Like Show Business in the musical Annie Get Your Gun ....
   - Lamar Trotti (posthumous nomination
  List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
  
  This is a list of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences annually presents Academy Awards in both competitive and honorary categories....
  )
• 1955 Love Me or Leave Me
  Love Me or Leave Me (film)
  
  Love Me or Leave Me is a biographical film which tells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star. It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as Martin Snyder, and Cameron Mitchell ....
   - Daniel Fuchs
  Daniel Fuchs
  
  Daniel Fuchs was an American screenwriter, fiction writer, and essayist. He was born in the Lower East Side, Manhattan, but his family migrated to Williamsburg, Brooklyn while Fuchs was an infant....
  
• The Private War of Major Benson
  The Private War of Major Benson
  
  The Private War of Major Benson is 1955 in film comedy film starring Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, Sal Mineo and Tim Hovey, about a tough-talking U.S....
   - Joe Connelly, Bob Mosher
• Rebel Without a Cause
  Rebel Without a Cause
  
  Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 in film film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious Adolescence#Teenagers played by James Dean, who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents, and faces the local high school bullies....
   - Nicholas Ray
  Nicholas Ray
  
  Nicholas Ray was an United States film director....
  
• The Sheep Has Five Legs
  The Sheep Has Five Legs
  
  The Sheep Has Five Legs is a 1954 in film Cinema of France film directed by Henri Verneuil. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story....
   - Jean Marsan
  Jean Marsan
  
  Jean Marsan was a French people screenwriter and actor. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs ....
  , Henri Troyat
  Henri Troyat
  
  Henri Troyat was a France author, biographer, historian and novelist....
  , Jacques Perret
  Jacques Perret (writer)
  
  Jacques Perret was a French people writer best known for his novel Le Caporal ?pingl? , which tells the story of his captivity in Germany and of his escape attempts....
  , Henri Verneuil
  Henri Verneuil
  
  Henri Verneuil was a prominent French people-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who enjoyed a successful career in France....
  , Raoul Ploquin
  Raoul Ploquin
  
  Raoul Ploquin was a French people film producer, production manager and screenwriter. He was co-nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Sheep Has Five Legs ....
  
• Strategic Air Command
  Strategic Air Command (film)
  
  Strategic Air Command is a 1955 in film United States film starring James Stewart and June Allyson, and directed by Anthony Mann. This Paramount Pictures release was the first of four films that depicted the role of the Strategic Air Command in the Cold War era....
   - Beirne Lay
• 1956 The Brave One
  The Brave One (1956 film)
  
  The Brave One is a 1956 in film American drama film. The film was directed by Irving Rapper, and stars Michel Ray, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., and Elsa C?rdenas....
   - Robert Rich (aka Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  
  Dalton Trumbo was an United States screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry....
  ) (Note: The name of the writer credited with authorship, Robert Rich, turned out to be an alias for Mr. Trumbo, who was being blacklisted at that time. On May 2, 1975, then-Academy president Walter Mirisch
  Walter Mirisch
  
  Walter Mortimer Mirisch is an American film producer. In his long and successful motion picture career, Walter Mirisch has produced some of the industry?s finest and most memorable films....
   presented the Award to Dalton Trumbo
  Dalton Trumbo
  
  Dalton Trumbo was an United States screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 during the committee's investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry....
  .)
• The Eddie Duchin Story - Leo Katcher
• High Society - Edward Burnds, Elwood Ullman (Note: The authors of this Bowery Boys
  The Bowery Boys
  
  The Bowery Boys was a group of actors who made a series of films released by Monogram Pictures from 1946 through 1958. The group was a revamping of "East Side Kids," who had been making films together since 1940....
   film respectfully withdrew their own names and the nomination. They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name
  High Society
  
  High Society is musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in VistaVision and Technicolor with music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It was directed by Charles Walters and produced by Sol C....
   starring Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
  , Grace Kelly
  Grace Kelly
  
  Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
   and Frank Sinatra
  Frank Sinatra
  
  Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
   which was based on The Philadelphia Story
  The Philadelphia Story
  
  The Philadelphia Story is a romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart , and directed by George Cukor. Based on a Broadway theatre play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicat...
  . This nomination was not included on the final ballot.)
• The Proud and the Beautiful
  The Proud and the Beautiful
  
  The Proud and the Beautiful is a 1953 in film Cinema of France-Cinema of Mexico international co-production drama directed by Yves All?gret....
   - Jean-Paul Sartre
  Jean-Paul Sartre
  
  Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre , commonly known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialism philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary criticism....
  
• Umberto D - Cesare Zavattini
  Cesare Zavattini
  
  Cesare Zavattini was an Italian people screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealism movement in Italian cinema....