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Jerome Cady
Writer, Additional Credits
Born August 15, 1903Died November 7, 1948 (45 years)
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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.
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
Jerome Cady Filmography
| 1955 | The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) |
| 1949 | |
| 1948 | Call Northside 777 · as Screenplay |
| 1947 | |
| 1947 | |
| 1945 | Captain Eddie · as Contributing Writer |
| 1944 | Roger Touhy, Gangster · as Screenplay |
| 1944 | |
| 1943 | |
| 1942 | |
| 1942 | What's Cookin' · as Screenplay |
| 1941 | |
| 1941 | They Met in Argentina · as Screenplay |
| 1941 | |
| 1941 | Play Girl · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | |
| 1940 | Cross-Country Romance · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | Anne of Windy Poplars · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | You Can't Fool Your Wife · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | |
| 1939 | Two Thoroughbreds · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Sued for Libel · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Full Confession · as Screenplay |
| 1939 | Five Came Back · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | Time Out for Murder · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | One Wild Night · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | |
| 1937 | Thank You, Mr. Moto · as Contributing Writer |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo · as Screenplay |
| 1937 | The Great Hospital Mystery · as Screenplay |
| 1951 | Cry Danger · as Story |
| 1948 | Those Who Came Back · as Original Story |
| 1945 | Man Alive · as Story |
| 1944 | Winged Victory · as Adaptation |
| 1944 | Wing and a Prayer · as Story |
| 1943 | Guadalcanal Diary · as Adaptation |
| 1942 | Obliging Young Lady · as Contributor To Treatment |
| 1940 | Millionaires in Prison · as Contributor To Screenplay Construction |
| 1938 | Island in the Sky · as Original Story |
| 1937 | Charlie Chan on Broadway · as Screen Play |