Charles Grayson (August 15, 1903 – May 4, 1973) was an American screenwriter. He worked on around forty films between 1936 and 1958. He worked under contract for
Warner Brothers
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (WBEI), commonly known as Warner Bros. (WB), is an American filmed entertainment studio headquartered at the Warner Bros. Studios complex in Burbank, California and the main namesake subsidiary of Warner Bro ...
for a number of years. Although uncredited in the film final, along with
Robert Buckner he was instrumental in reviving the
operetta film ''
The Desert Song'' (1943) by proposing an updated version of an old studio hit.
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Selected filmography
* ''
Crash Donovan'' (1936)
* ''
Breezing Home'' (1937)
* ''
The Man Who Cried Wolf'' (1937)
* ''
We Have Our Moments'' (1937)
* ''
You're a Sweetheart'' (1937)
* ''
Reckless Living'' (1938)
* ''
Swing, Sister, Swing'' (1938)
* ''
Tomorrow at Midnight'' (1939)
* ''
Hawaiian Nights'' (1939)
* ''
One Night in the Tropics'' (1940)
* ''
The Boys from Syracuse
''The Boys from Syracuse'' is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, based on William Shakespeare's play '' The Comedy of Errors'', as adapted by librettist George Abbott. The score includes swing and other contemp ...
'' (1940)
* ''
Thieves Fall Out'' (1941)
* ''
Bad Men of Missouri'' (1941)
* ''
Law of the Tropics'' (1941)
* ''
Underground'' (1941)
* ''
Wild Bill Hickok Rides'' (1942)
* ''
The Noose Hangs High'' (1948)
* ''
Outpost in Morocco'' (1949)
* ''
Red Light'' (1949)
* ''
The Woman on Pier 13'' (1949)
* ''
Thunder Across the Pacific'' (1951)
* ''
Battle Hymn'' (1957)
* ''
The Barbarian and the Geisha'' (1958)
References
Bibliography
* Dick, Bernard F. ''The Star-spangled Screen: The American World War II Film''. University Press of Kentucky, 1996.
External links
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1903 births
1973 deaths
American male screenwriters
Screenwriters from Los Angeles
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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