Grover Jones

Grover Jones (born November 15, 1893 in Rosedale , Indiana , † September 24, 1940 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film director and screenwriter who was twice nominated for an Oscar .

biography

Jones began as a screenwriter and director in the Hollywood film industry in the early 1920s and, after his debut film The Snip (1920), for which he also wrote the screenplay, made twenty more, mostly silent films .

However, he was far more productive and successful as a screenwriter and wrote the templates for more than 100 films until his death.

At the Academy Awards in 1932 he was nominated for an Oscar for the first time together with William Slavens McNutt, namely for the Oscar in the category of best original story for Who is Right Here? (1932). A second nomination was carried out with Achmed Abdullah , John L. Balderston , William Slavens McNutt and Waldemar Young at the Academy Awards in 1936 for the Oscar for best adapted screenplay for Bengali (1935).

Other well-known films based on his scripts were Trouble in Paradise (1932), Battle in the Mountains (1936), Chain Convict in Australia (1939), Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Assault on the Olive Branch (1940) and Black Command (1940). He worked with well-known film directors such as Stephen Roberts , Henry Hathaway , Hal Roach , John Cromwell , Richard Wallace , Ernst Lubitsch and Raoul Walsh .

He once said of the Hollywood film industry: "The only insane asylum run by the inmates" ("The only asylum run by the inmates").

His daughter was Sue Sally Hale (1937–2003), who posed as a man to play polo and became a pioneer in the field of women's emancipation in sport.

Web links

• Grover Jones in the Internet Movie Database (English)