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John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best remembered for his horror and fantasy scripts. He wrote the 1926 play Berkeley Square and the 1927 American adaptation of the 1924 play Dracula .
John L. Balderston was born in Philadelphia and began his newspaper career in 1912 while still a student at Columbia University as the New York correspondent for The Philadelphia Record. He was a war correspondent for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate during World War I and then director of information in England and Ireland for the U.S. Committee on Public Information.
Oct 9, 2021 · Balderston, John L. (John Lloyd), 1889-1954; Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. Dracula Boxid IA40257410 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:oclc:record:654594993 urn:lcp:draculavampirepl0000dean:lcpdf:40e234ed-84e2-4777-843c-133342f98802
Inventory of the John L. Balderston Papers, 1915-1950. The Billy Rose Theatre Division. New York Public Library. 40 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023-7498 (212) 870-1639. Encoding of the finding aid sponsored by grant funding from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. ©2000 The New York Public Library.
Thus, as Dracula’s “re-vampers,” Deane and Balderston forever altered the physicality of the Count by transforming Stoker’s “pasty villain” into “a smooth-talking Lothario quite at home in the drawing-rooms” of Dr. Seward with Abraham Van Helsing lurking in a shadowed doorway, waiting for the cool light of morning (“Dracula ...
John L Balderston was born on the 22nd of October, 1889 in Philadelphia. His work as a playwright and screenwriter makes him a pivotal figure in the world of horror movies; the success of his 1926 play Berkeley Square landed him the job of revising Hamilton Deane’s play Dracula for the American stage and the reworking of the screenplay for the 1931 cinema classic.
Balderston, John L. Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Theatre. (1889-1954) US playwright and screenwriter who wrote, always in collaboration, some dramas of genre interest. Berkeley Square (performed 1926; 1928 chap) with J C Squire is a Timeslip fantasy based on The Sense of the Past ( 1917) by Henry James; Red Planet ( 1933 ...
