Jerome Cady

Overview

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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.

Writing
1951	Cry Danger	Writing	Story	59 Average
1949	Sand	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1948	Call Northside 777	Writing	Screenplay	60 Fair
1947	Thunder in the Valley	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1947	Forever Amber	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1945	Man Alive	Writing	Story	58 Average
1944	Roger Touhy, Gangster	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1944	The Purple Heart	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1944	Wing and a Prayer	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1944	Wing and a Prayer	Writing	Story	58 Average
1943	Guadalcanal Diary	Writing	Adaptation	58 Average
1943	Silver Skates	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1942	Mexican Spitfire at Sea	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1942	What's Cookin'?	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1941	The Mexican Spitfire's Baby	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1941	They Met in Argentina	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1941	Repent at Leisure	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1941	Play Girl	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1941	The Saint In Palm Springs	Writing	Writer	58 Average
1940	Cross-Country Romance	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1940	Anne of Windy Poplars	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1940	You Can't Fool Your Wife	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1940	The Marines Fly High	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1940	Laddie	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1939	Two Thoroughbreds	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1939	Sued for Libel	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1939	Full Confession	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1939	Five Came Back	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1939	Winner Take All	Writing	Story	N/A N/A
1939	Inside Story	Writing	Writer	N/A N/A
1939	The Arizona Wildcat	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1938	Time Out for Murder	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average
1938	Mr. Moto's Gamble	Writing	Writer	59 Average
1938	Island in the Sky	Writing	Original Story	59 Average
1937	Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo	Writing	Screenplay	59 Average
1937	The Great Hospital Mystery	Writing	Screenplay	58 Average

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Jerome Cady

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