Albert Mannheimer

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Albert Mannheimer (born March 9, 1913 in New York City , New York , † March 19, 1972 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter , journalist and critic .

Live and act

Mannheimer studied at Yale and then worked as a critic for the New York Enquirer. He also worked as a columnist for the Samuel French publishing house and, also in the 1930s, wrote the radio program “Good News”.

In 1937 the MGM engaged him as a writer of short films, and since 1939 Mannheimer has been a screenwriter of full-length films. During the entire Second World War , the New Yorker was only offered B-film material. For some works such as the Western The Kid From Texas and The Last Bandit (Billy the Kid) he also wrote the lyrics or only wrote the lyrics, in other films Mannheimer remained unnamed in the opening and closing credits or was reworked (so-called script polisher ) from already existing scripts.

In 1946 he took a trip to Broadway and staged his own play The Bees and the Flowers there , which ran for only four weeks in the fall of the same year. Another stage activity led him to the Margo Jones Theater in Dallas . In the early post-war years, Mannheimer's film career seemed to improve when he was offered better material. Albert Mannheimer received an Oscar nomination in 1951 and another from the Writers Guild of America for his screenplay for the comedy Die ist nicht von Yesterday .

Afterwards it can hardly be proven. In the 1960s Albert Mannheimer found only minimal work in television.

Filmography

only as a screenwriter

  • 1939: The Kid From Texas
  • 1939: Dancing Co-Ed
  • 1940: Broadway Melody of 1940 (anonymous)
  • 1940: Sporting Blood
  • 1941: Whistling in the Dark
  • 1944: Song of the Open Road
  • 1948: Three Daring Daughters
  • 1950: Born Yesterday (Born Yesterday)
  • 1951: Her First Romance
  • 1952: Bloodhounds of Broadway
  • 1965-66: Gidget (several episodes of the television series)

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 184

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