Jerome Cady
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- August 15, 1903
- Died
- November 7, 1948 (aged 45)
- Birthplace
- Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerome Cady (August 15th, 1903 – November 7th, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan 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 Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard 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 Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer 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 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.
Known For
Filmography
Cry Danger
Movie · Story
Sand
Movie · Writer
Call Northside 777
Movie · Screenplay
Those Who Came Back
Movie · Screenplay
Forever Amber
Movie · Writer
Thunder in the Valley
Movie · Writer
Man Alive
Movie · Story
The Purple Heart
Movie · Writer
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Movie · Screenplay
Wing and a Prayer
Movie · Story, Screenplay
Guadalcanal Diary
Movie · Adaptation
Silver Skates
Movie · Writer
What's Cookin'?
Movie · Screenplay
Mexican Spitfire at Sea
Movie · Writer
The Saint In Palm Springs
Movie · Writer
Play Girl
Movie · Screenplay
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
Movie · Writer
Repent at Leisure
Movie · Writer
They Met in Argentina
Movie · Screenplay
The Marines Fly High
Movie · Writer
Cross-Country Romance
Movie · Screenplay
Laddie
Movie · Writer
You Can't Fool Your Wife
Movie · Screenplay
Anne of Windy Poplars
Movie · Screenplay
Five Came Back
Movie · Screenplay
Inside Story
Movie · Writer
Sued for Libel
Movie · Screenplay
Two Thoroughbreds
Movie · Screenplay
Full Confession
Movie · Screenplay
Winner Take All
Movie · Story
The Arizona Wildcat
Movie · Screenplay
Mr. Moto's Gamble
Movie · Writer
Time Out for Murder
Movie · Screenplay
Island in the Sky
Movie · Original Story
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo
Movie · Screenplay
The Great Hospital Mystery
Movie · Screenplay