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John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
John Monk Saunders was born on 22 November 1895 in Hinckley, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Dawn Patrol (1930), Wings (1927) and Devil Dogs of the Air (1935). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes). He died on 11 March 1940 in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
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John Monk Saunders was born on November 22, 1895 in Hinckley, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Dawn Patrol (1930), Wings (1927) and The Eagle and the Hawk (1933). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes). He died on March 11, 1940 in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
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- March 11, 1940
Sep 22, 2008 · WHEN JOHN MONK SAUNDERS PUBLISHED THE NOVEL Single Lady in 1931, literary critics regarded the writer as an inept imitator of Ernest Hemingway's style and dismissed the work as a second-rate homage to The Sun Also Rises.
In Howard Hawks: Early life and work. …based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I.
The Dawn Patrol won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service. It was subsequently remade in 1938 with the same title , and the original was then renamed Flight Commander and released later as part of the Warner ...
John Monk Saunders was an American writer, novelist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novel Wings, which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture in 1927-28, and his pacifist themes in his works.
