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Mary C. McCall Jr. was born on 4 April 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Swing Shift Maisie (1943), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and I Promise to Pay (1937). She was married to David Bramson and Dwight Franklin.
American screenwriter
Born on April 4, 1904 in New York, New York, Mary C. McCall was an American writer best known for several screenplays. A graduate of Vassar College and Trinity College in Dublin, she got her start writing advertising copy and fiction after graduation, later going into the film industry at Warner Brothers to help with the screenplay of "Scarlet Dawn" in 1932, based on her novel, "Revolt." Her later work includes "Craig's Wife," the 1935 film version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with James Cagne
"In this brilliantly written book, Smyth restores Mary C. McCall Jr. to a male-dominated history of film from which she is glaringly absent. With encyclopedic knowledge and lively and engaging prose, Smyth crafts a thorough-going portrait of McCall's life and oeuvre, documenting the challenges that women screenwriters and union leaders faced before the backlash of the 1950s ended so many of their careers."
BUY THIS BOOK. Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Screenwriter. J.E. Smyth. Columbia Univ, $30 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-231-21528-2. In this lively biography ...
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