About

Known credits:
36
Birthday:
1903-08-15
Place of birth:
Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
Website:
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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.

Known for

Writing
1951 Cry Danger Writing Story 59
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1949 Sand Writing Writer 58
Average
1948 Call Northside 777 Writing Screenplay 60
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1947 Thunder in the Valley Writing Writer 59
Average
1947 Forever Amber Writing Writer 59
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
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1944 Wing and a Prayer Writing Story 58
Average
1943 Guadalcanal Diary Writing Adaptation 58
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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
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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
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1939 Full Confession Writing Screenplay 58
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1939 Five Came Back Writing Screenplay 59
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1939 Winner Take All Writing Story N/A
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1939 Inside Story Writing Writer N/A
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1939 The Arizona Wildcat Writing Screenplay 59
Average
1938 Time Out for Murder Writing Screenplay 59
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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