Claude Binyon

Claude Binyon (born October 17, 1905 in Chicago , Illinois , United States , † February 14, 1978 in Glendale , California , United States) was an American screenwriter and film director.

Claude Binyon (left) at the time of filming for Paris Acquaintance (1937). To his right director Wesley Ruggles , leading actress Claudette Colbert and her colleagues Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas

Live and act

Binyon graduated from the University of Missouri and began his professional career as a journalist in the early 1920s. Initially he worked for the "Examiner", based in his native Chicago, then (from 1925) he wrote for the show business journal Variety and thus quickly made his first contacts with the film business in Hollywood. Although he has also worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles since 1932, Binyon remained connected to Variety as a writer until he died.

As a film writer, Claude Binyon mainly contributed the manuscripts for comedies, comedies and film musicals and celebrated his greatest successes in the 1930s and 1940s in collaboration with the comedy specialists Wesley Ruggles and Mitchell Leisen . Stars of Binyon comedies were popular actors such as Claudette Colbert , Carole Lombard , Bob Hope , Clifton Webb , Bing Crosby , Fred Astaire , Mexico's Cantinflas and even John Wayne (in the land of 1000 adventures ), who is usually not particularly comedy . Binyon also made occasional excursions into the dramatic subject and provided the templates for films as diverse as The Second Mother and China Story .

In the years 1948 to 1956, Claude Binyon, who had also done his military service as captain in the Army Pictorial Center in Astoria (Queens) from 1942 to 1945, also tried his hand at film director - all in all with rather mixed success.

Filmography

as screenwriter (selection):

• 1932: If I Had a Million ( If I Had a Million )
• 1933: College Humor
• 1933: Gambling Ship
• 1934: Search for Beauty
• 1934: Many Happy Returns
• 1935: The Girl Who Didn't Want The Lord (The Gilded Lily)
• 1935: Women - Whims (The Bride Comes Home)
• 1935: Mississippi
• 1935: A woman of 20 years (Accent on Youth)
• 1936: The Second Mother (Valiant Is the Word for Carrie)
• 1937: Acquaintance from Paris ( I Met Him in Paris )
• 1937: Lies ... a Pleasure ( True Confession )
• 1938: Sing, You Sinners
• 1939: Invitation to Happiness
• 1940: A husband too much (Too Many Husbands)
• 1940: Arizona (Arizona)
• 1941: You Belong to Me
• 1942: Liebling, for dictation ( Take a Letter, Darling )
• 1942: Music, Music ( Holiday Inn )
• 1943: This Is the Army
• 1943: Dixie
• 1943: No Time for Love ( No Time for Love )
• 1944: And the Angels Sing
• 1945: Incendiary Blonde
• 1946: Cross My Heart
• 1947: The Unruly Wife (Suddenly, It's Spring) (also production)
• 1948: The Saxon Charm
• 1950: My Blue Heaven
• 1950: Stella
• 1952: Casanova against his will ( Dreamboat )
• 1952: Down Among the Sheltering Palms
• 1954: The world belongs to women ( Woman's World )
• 1956: Without love it does not work ( You Can not Run Away from It )
• 1958: Don't be afraid of spicy things ( Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! )
• 1960: Land of 1000 Adventures ( North to Alaska )
• 1960: Pepe - What can the world cost (Pepe)
• 1961: China Story ( Satan Never Sleeps )
• 1964: Prince Consort in the White House (Kisses for My President)

as a film director (complete):

• 1948: The Saxon Charm
• 1948: Five on their honeymoon ( Family Honeymoon )
• 1950: Mother Didn't Tell Me
• 1950: Stella
• 1952: Aaron Slick from Punkin Creek
• 1952: Casanova against his will ( Dreamboat )
• 1953: Here Come the Girls
• 1956: Screen Directors Playhouse: It's a Most Unusual Day (TV movie)

literature

• International Motion Picture Almanac 1965, Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 24

Web links

• Obituary in The New York Times
• Claude Binyon in the Internet Movie Database (English)