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Owen Davis
Writer, Producer, Additional Credits
Born January 29, 1874Died October 14, 1956 (82 years)
Owen Gould Davis was an American dramatist. In 1919, he became the first elected president of the Dramatists Guild of America. He received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1923 play Icebound, and penned hundreds of plays and scripts for radio and film. Before the First World War, he also wrote racy sketches of New York high jinks and low life for the Police Gazette under the name of Ike Swift. Many of these were set in the Tenderloin, Manhattan. Davis also wrote under several other pseudonyms, including Martin Hurley, Arthur J. Lamb, Walter Lawrence, John Oliver, and Robert Wayne.
Owen Davis Filmography
| 1934 | |
| 1931 | My Sin · as Screenplay |
| 1931 | |
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| 1929 | |
| 1924 | |
| 1915 |
| 1950 |
| 1950 | The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (TV Series) · as Story |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as Play |
| 1949 | The Great Gatsby · as Theatre Play |
| 1947 | Kraft Television Theatre (TV Series) · as Play |
| 1944 | Up in Arms · as Characters |
| 1942 | Mr. and Mrs. North · as Theatre Play |
| 1938 | Jezebel · as Theatre Play |
| 1937 | The Good Earth · as Theatre Play |
| 1934 | The 9th Guest · as Theatre Play |
| 1933 | Yours Sincerely · as Story |
| 1930 | Only Saps Work · as Theatre Play |
| 1930 | Whoopee! · as Based Upon The Play "the Nervous Wreck" By |
| 1930 | Spring Is Here · as Theatre Play |
| 1929 | The Donovan Affair · as Theatre Play |
| 1926 | The Nervous Wreck · as Adaptation |
| 1925 | Lazybones · as Theatre Play |
| 1925 | Up the Ladder · as Play "up The Ladder" |
| 1914 | The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England · as Theatre Play |