William Ludwig (screenwriter)

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William Ludwig (born May 26, 1912 in New York City , New York , † February 7, 1999 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter who received the Oscar for best original screenplay .

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Ludwig began as a screenwriter in the late 1930s and first worked on the making of a film in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) by George B. Seitz and was involved in 30 films over the course of his career.

1952 was nominated together with Sonya Levien for The Great Caruso (1951) by Richard Thorpe for the Prize of the Writers Guild of America (WGA Award) for the best written musical. In 1956 he received another nomination with Sonya Levien for the WGA Award for Best Written Musical, this time for Oklahoma! (1955) by Fred Zinnemann .

He and Sonya Levien also received the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 1956 Academy Awards for Interrupted Melody (1955) by Curtis Bernhardt .

Other important scripts were Love Crazy (1941) by Jack Conway , The Imperfect Lady (1948) by Jack Conway and Lassie's Homeland (1948) by Fred M. Wilcox .

William Ludwig was also a founding member of the Screen Writers Guild , now the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the screenwriters' union. During his 18 years as Secretary-Treasurer of the WGA, he was involved in the establishment of their pension funds in the 1960s . For this commitment and his achievements as a screenwriter, he later received several honorary awards from the WGA such as the Valentine Davies Award (1973), the Morgan Cox Award (1976) and the Edmund J. North Award (1992). Ludwig died in the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , which was set up, among other things, on his initiative.

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SURNAME Ludwig, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1999
Place of death Woodland Hills , Los Angeles , California