Arthur Hornblow Junior

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Arthur Hornblow Jr. (born March 15, 1893 in New York City , † July 17, 1976 ) was an American playwright and film producer , the films he produced were nominated four times for the Oscar for best picture.

Life

Hornblow, son of the screenwriter and theater critic Arthur Hornblow , initially wrote and adapted stage works such as the comedy Madame Pierre (1922) based on Eugène Brieux . In 1926 he wrote the drama The Captive , a play with homosexual content based on the play La prisonnière by Edouard Bourdet , in which a lesbian relationship is depicted. He then began his work as a film producer in the early 1930s with the film One Heavenly Night (1931). By the early 1960s he had produced almost forty films.

At the Academy Awards in 1935 , a film he had produced was nominated for the Oscar for best film for the first time, namely A Butler in America , which he produced for Paramount Pictures . In 1941 he produced the film Das goldene Tor for Paramount Studios and was nominated again for the Oscar for best film at the 1942 Academy Awards. He received further nominations for an Oscar in this category in 1945 for The House of Lady Alquist (1944) and in 1958 for Witness for the Prosecution .

Hornblow was married three times and was her first marriage to actress Juliette Crosby in 1924 . Between 1936 and 1942 he was married to the actress Myrna Loy and most recently from 1945 to his death with the actress Leonora Hornblow .

Filmography (selection)

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