John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Events 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made
Balderston began his career as a journalist. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I. A war correspondent is a Journalist who covers stories firsthand from a war zone. World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All He was the editor of Outlook magazine and a correspondent for the New York World. Outlook is an Indian weekly English Newsmagazine in publication since October 1995. The New York World was a Newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931
In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. Horace Liveright (1884 &ndash September 1933 was an American publisher and stage producer. Dracula is a 1924 stage play adapted by Hamilton Deane from the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, and subsequently revised by John His 1929 play Berkeley Square later formed the basis of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. This article is about the stage play For the 1970 film adaptation see On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. His Dracula subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 film version, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films: in addition to Dracula, he contributed to Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula's Daughter. Dracula is a classic 1931 Horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios) a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is a major Global American Frankenstein is a Horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel of the same name Bride of Frankenstein (advertised as The Bride of Frankenstein) is a science fiction / Horror film. The Mummy is a 1932 horror classic from Universal Pictures directed by Karl Freund and starring Boris Karloff as a Dracula's Daughter is a 1936 Horror film, a sequel to the 1931 film Dracula. He spent much of his career adapting novels for the screen, including The Prisoner of Zenda in 1937 and 1944's Gaslight, which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). The Prisoner of Zenda is a 1937 Black-and-white Adventure film based on the Anthony Hope 's this is considered by many to be the definitive This article is about the 1944 film Gaslight For the 1940 release see Gaslight. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer is a 1935 Adventure film loosely adapted from the 1930 book of the same name by Francis Yeats-Brown. He was also one of the team of writers who collaborated on the 1939 film adaptation of Gone with the Wind. Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American dramatic - romantic - War film adapted from Margaret Mitchell 's 1936
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