Jay Dratler
Jay Dratler (born September 14, 1911 in New York City , United States , † September 21, 1968 in Mexico City , Mexico ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.
Life
Jay Dratler grew up in New York City as the son of an Austrian mother. After school, he attended the University of North Carolina . During semesters abroad he traveled to the Sorbonne in France and to Vienna , where he learned fluent German . He first settled in Vienna and began visiting the coffee companies there. When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany , he left Austria before the Anschluss and returned to the United States in 1936. His debut novel Manhattan Side Street was published in 1936 , followed by his second work Ducks in Thunder (later All for a Woman ) in 1940. In that year he also moved from New York to Hollywood , where he began a career as a screenwriter.
Dratler was best known as a screenwriter for film noirs . His best-known works were Password 777 , for which he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award , and Laura (1944), which was nominated for an Oscar . The novel The Pitfall (filmed in 1948) was published in 1947, Judas Kiss in 1955 and Doctor Paradise in 1961 . His last film script was for Wernher von Braun in 1959 - I reach for the stars . A few more scripts for television series and plays followed.
Dratler died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1968 in Mexico City, where he had settled in the mid-1960s.
Works (selection)
Novels
- 1936: Manhattan Side Street
- 1940: Ducks in Thunder
- 1948: The Pitfall
- 1955: Judas Kiss
- 1961: Doctor Paradise . ACE Books 1961.
Scripts
- 1943: Higher and Higher
- 1944: Laura
- 1945: It's in the bag!
- 1946: Enemy in the Dark ( The Dark Corner )
- 1948: Password 777 ( Call Northside 777 )
- 1949: Impact
- 1952: We're Not Married ( We're Not Married! )
- 1957: Wernher von Braun - I reach for the stars ( I Aim at the Stars )
Web links
- Jay Dratler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biography. New York Times , accessed February 4, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dratler, Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 21, 1968 |
| Place of death | Mexico City , Mexico |