Frederick William Rath (March 3, 1874 – August 7, 1954) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
Rath was born in New York.
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He died in ]Monroe, New York
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Theater
*''Solitaire'' (March 1929), writer
*''Melodrama'' (1929), a play about Sing Sing
*''First Night'' (1930-1931), writer
*''Her Tin Soldier'' (1933), wrote and produced[
*''Bigger Than Barnum'' (1946), co-wrote with Lee Sands
]
Films
*''Behind the Mask'' (1917)
*''The Mystic Hour'' (1917)
*'' The Golden God'' (1917)
*''When You and I Were Young'' (1917)
*''Public Defender
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'' (1917)
*''Cab Calloway's Hi-De-Ho
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'' (1934)
*'' Cab Calloway's Jitterbug Party'' (1935), written by Milton Hockey and Fred Rath
*''Symphony in Black
''Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life'' is a -minute musical short produced in 1935 that features Duke Ellington’s early extended piece, "A Rhapsody of Negro Life". The film, Billie Holiday’s screen debut, was directed by Fred Waller a ...
'' (1935)Give Out, Sisters
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'' (1941), original story[
*'' Sing a Jingle'' (1944) screenplay]
References
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American male dramatists and playwrights
1954 deaths
1874 births
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Screenwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American screenwriters
20th-century American male writers