Edward Doherty
Edward "Eddie" J. Doherty (born October 30, 1890 in Chicago , Illinois , † 1975 ) was an American writer and screenwriter who was nominated once for the Oscar for best original story.
Life
Doherty first worked as a journalist for various daily newspapers and wrote numerous novels and short stories before he also created some templates for films in the 1930s and 1940s.
He co-wrote the screenplay for Five Heroes (The Sullivans, 1944) with Jules Schermer , a war drama about five brothers who served in the US Navy . Anne Baxter , Thomas Mitchell and Selena Royle played the leading roles in the film, directed by Lloyd Bacon . Doherty and Schermer were nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Story, but the award went to Leo McCarey for The Road to Happiness .
In 1943 he married Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck , who came from Russia and who founded the Friendship House missionary society in the early 1930s . After the marriage there followed numerous books with religious content, but also a biography about his wife under the title Tumbleweed: A Biography of Catherine Doherty and a biography about the founder of the Montfortan Order , Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort with the title Wisdom's Fool: A Biography of St. Louis de Montfort . In addition, he and his wife founded the Madonna House Apostolate lay movement in 1947 .
In 1969 Doherty received the ordination as a priest by the Archeparch of the Archeparch Akka , Joseph-Marie Raya, in the rite of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church .
Publications
Novels, short stories
- Whispers , novel, 1920
- The Broadway murders , 1929
- The Rain girl , 1930
- Shackled Cinderella , 1932
- Sand Hog , novel, 1935
- Gall and honey: The Story of a Newspaperman , 1941
- Matt Talbot , novel, reissued 2001
Non-fiction books, biographies
- Tumbleweed: A Biography of Catherine Doherty , biography, reissued in 1988
- Wisdom's Fool: A Biography of St. Louis de Montfort , 1993
- Getting to Know God , reissued 1998
- True Devotion to Mary , new edition 2005 ( adaptation of de Montfort's treatise on perfect devotion to Mary )
- Splendor of Sorrow: The Seven Sorrows of the Mother of God , new edition 2010
Filmography
- 1933: The Past of Mary Holmes
- 1935: Under Pressure
- 1944: Five Heroes ( The Sullivans )
Web links
- Edward Doherty in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bibliography in the Open Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Doherty, Edward |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Doherty, Edward J .; Eddie Doherty (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and priest |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1975 |