John L. Balderston - Фильмы

Джон л. Balderston (October 22, 1889 г. в Филадельфии, штат Пенсильвания - March 8, 1954, Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния) was an American playwright and сценарист best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. Balderston began his career as a журналист. He worked as European war корреспондент during World War I. He was the editor of Outlook magazine and a корреспондент for the New York World. В 1927, he was retained by Гораций Live Right to revise Гамильтон Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. His 1929 Berkeley Square play later formed the база of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. His Дракула subsequently formed the база of the 1931 фильм версия, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films: in addition to Dracula, he contributed to Франкенштейна, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, и Ресторан-театр dracula's Daughter. He spent much of his career adapting novels for the screen, including The Prisoner of Zenda, 1937 и 1944's стимпанк, which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). He was also one of the team of writers who collaborated on the 1939 film adaptation of Gone with the Wind. His 1932 play Red Planet что filmed as Red Planet Mars в 1952.