Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from

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movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as '' Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943), a successful adaptation of '' Forever Amber'' (1947) and the police procedural ''

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'' (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a

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on board his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an

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nomination for

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for ''

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'' in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the ''Los Angeles Record,'' before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined

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in 1940, having previously been employed at

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between radio jobs.''Variety'', November 9, 1948.

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