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Jerome Cady
Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerome Cady (August 15th, 1903 – November 7th, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerome Cady (August 15th, 1903 – November 7th, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the Los Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc., as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.
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1951
Cry Danger
Movie Story
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1949
Sand
Movie Writer
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1948
Call Northside 777
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Thunder in the Valley
Movie Writer
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1947
Forever Amber
Movie Writer
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1945
Man Alive
Movie Story
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1944
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie Screenplay
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1944
The Purple Heart
Movie Writer
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1944
Wing and a Prayer
Movie Story
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1943
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie Adaptation
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1943
Silver Skates
Movie Writer
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1942
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Movie Writer
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1942
What's Cookin'?
Movie Screenplay
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1941
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Movie Writer
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1941
They Met in Argentina
Movie Screenplay
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1941
Repent at Leisure
Movie Writer
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1941
Play Girl
Movie Screenplay
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1941
The Saint In Palm Springs
Movie Writer
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1940
Cross-Country Romance
Movie Screenplay
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1940
Anne of Windy Poplars
Movie Screenplay
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1940
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie Screenplay
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1940
The Marines Fly High
Movie Writer
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1940
Laddie
Movie Writer
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1939
Two Thoroughbreds
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Sued for Libel
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Full Confession
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Five Came Back
Movie Screenplay
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1939
Winner Take All
Movie Story
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1939
Inside Story
Movie Writer
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1939
The Arizona Wildcat
Movie Screenplay
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1938
Time Out for Murder
Movie Screenplay
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1938
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Movie Writer
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1938
Island in the Sky
Movie Original Story
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1937
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Movie Screenplay
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1937
The Great Hospital Mystery
Movie Screenplay
