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Ben Markson (August 6, 1897 – October 20, 1971) was an American screenwriter active from the very beginning of the sound film era through the end of the 1950s.[1]

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  1. 74 relations: A Close Call for Boston Blackie, Adolphe Menjou, Allen Rivkin, American Film Institute, Ancestry.com, Babbitt (1934 film), Big Hearted Herbert, Boston Blackie, Brides Are Like That, Bright Lights (1935 film), Casey Robinson, Constance Bennett, Cornel Wilde, Creston, Iowa, Danger – Love at Work, Dennis O'Keefe, Edge of Eternity (film), Flying Hostess, George Cukor, George Montgomery (actor), Girl Missing, Going Highbrow, Gold Diggers of 1933, Goodbye Again (1933 film), Gregory La Cava, He Hired the Boss, Here Comes the Navy, I Was a Convict, Is My Face Red?, It Happened on 5th Avenue, James Cagney, Jane Murfin, Lady Killer (1933 film), Lee Tracy, Los Angeles County, California, Lowell Sherman, Lucky Devils (1933 film), Lupe Vélez, Masked Emotions, Mr. District Attorney (1947 film), Nobody's Fool (1936 film), Otto Preminger, Paramount Pictures, Picture Snatcher, Pre-Code Hollywood, Pride of the Navy, Prison Ship (1945 film), Racket Squad, Rackety Rax, Ready, Willing, and Able (film), ... Expand index (24 more) »

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A Close Call for Boston Blackie

A Close Call for Boston Blackie is a 1946 American crime film directed by Lew Landers.

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Adolphe Menjou

Adolphe Jean Menjou (February 18, 1890 – October 29, 1963) was an American actor.

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Allen Rivkin

Allen Rivkin (20 November 1903 – 17 February 1990) was an American screenwriter.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American nonprofit film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Babbitt (1934 film)

Babbitt is a 1934 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Sinclair Lewis directed by William Keighley and starring Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee and Claire Dodd.

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Big Hearted Herbert

Big Hearted Herbert is a 1934 domestic comedy film starring Aline MacMahon and Guy Kibbee as a middle-aged couple.

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Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (1881–1928).

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Brides Are Like That

Brides Are Like That is a 1936 American comedy film directed by William C. McGann and written by Ben Markson.

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Bright Lights (1935 film)

Bright Lights is a 1935 film directed by Busby Berkeley.

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Casey Robinson

Kenneth Casey Robinson (October 17, 1903 – December 6, 1979) was an American producer and director of mostly B movies and a screenwriter responsible for some of Bette Davis' most revered films.

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Constance Bennett

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.

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Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde (born Kornél Lajos Weisz; October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was a Hungarian-American actor and filmmaker.

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Creston, Iowa

Creston is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Iowa.

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Danger – Love at Work

Danger – Love at Work is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Otto Preminger and starring Ann Sothern, Jack Haley and Edward Everett Horton.

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Dennis O'Keefe

Dennis O'Keefe (born Edward Vance Flanagan; March 29, 1908 – August 31, 1968) was an American actor and screenwriter.

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Edge of Eternity (film)

Edge of Eternity is a 1959 American crime film starring Cornel Wilde, Victoria Shaw, and Mickey Shaughnessy.

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Flying Hostess

Flying Hostess is a 1936 American drama film directed by Murray Roth and starring William Gargan, Judith Barrett and William Hall.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.

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George Montgomery (actor)

George Montgomery (born George Montgomery Letz; August 27, 1916 – December 12, 2000) was an American actor, best known for his work in Western films and television.

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Girl Missing

Girl Missing is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery film starring Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon and Mary Brian.

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Going Highbrow

Going Highbrow is a 1935 American comedy-musical film directed by Robert Florey.

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Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933 is an American pre-Code musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics).

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Goodbye Again (1933 film)

Goodbye Again is a 1933 pre-Code romantic comedy film made by First National Pictures and Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Henry Blanke from a screenplay by Ben Markson, based on the play by George Haight and Allan Scott.

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Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an American film director of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.

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He Hired the Boss

He Hired the Boss is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Thomas Z. Loring and written by Irving Cummings Jr. and Ben Markson.

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Here Comes the Navy

Here Comes the Navy (also known as Hey, Sailor) is a 1934 American romantic comedy film written by Earl Baldwin and Ben Markson and directed by Lloyd Bacon.

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I Was a Convict

I Was a Convict is a 1939 American crime film directed by Aubrey Scotto and written by Robert Hardy Andrews and Ben Markson.

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Is My Face Red?

Is My Face Red? is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by William A. Seiter and written by Ben Markson and Casey Robinson.

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It Happened on 5th Avenue

It Happened on 5th Avenue is a 1947 American comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Victor Moore, Ann Harding, Don DeFore, Charles Ruggles and Gale Storm.

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James Cagney

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor and dancer.

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Jane Murfin

Jane Murfin, née Macklem (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Lady Killer (1933 film)

Lady Killer is a 1933 American pre-Code crime drama film starring James Cagney, Mae Clarke, and Margaret Lindsay, based on the story "The Finger Man" by Rosalind Keating Shaffer.

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Lee Tracy

William Lee Tracy (April 14, 1898 – October 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022.

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Lowell Sherman

Lowell Sherman (October 11, 1888 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director.

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Lucky Devils (1933 film)

Lucky Devils is a 1933 American Pre-Code action film about group of Hollywood stuntmen and their dangerous daredevil stunt work, starring William Boyd and Bruce Cabot, and features an early appearance by Lon Chaney Jr.

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Lupe Vélez

María Guadalupe Villalobos "Lupe" Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944) was a Mexican actress, singer, and dancer during the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.

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Masked Emotions

Masked Emotions is a 1929 American sound adventure crime drama film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation starring George O'Brien and Nora Lane.

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Mr. District Attorney (1947 film)

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Nobody's Fool (1936 film)

Nobody's Fool is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Arthur Greville Collins and written by Ralph Block, Ben Markson, and Jerry Sackheim.

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Otto Preminger

Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) was an Austrian-American theatre and film director, film producer, and actor.

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Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film and television production and distribution company and the namesake subsidiary of Paramount Global.

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Picture Snatcher

Picture Snatcher is a 1933 American pre-code comedy-drama film starring James Cagney as a gangster who decides to quit to pursue his dream.

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Pre-Code Hollywood

Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.

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Pride of the Navy

Pride of the Navy is a 1939 American action film directed by Charles Lamont and written by Ben Markson and Saul Elkins.

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Prison Ship (1945 film)

Prison Ship is a 1945 American war drama film directed by Arthur Dreifuss and starring Nina Foch, Robert Lowery and Richard Loo.

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Racket Squad

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series that aired from 1951 to 1953.

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Rackety Rax

Rackety Rax is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy action film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen and Nell O'Day.

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Ready, Willing, and Able (film)

Ready, Willing, and Able is a 1937 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and starring Ruby Keeler, Lee Dixon, Allen Jenkins and Ross Alexander.

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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a 1938 American musical comedy film directed by Allan Dwan, and written by Don Ettlinger, Karl Tunberg, Ben Markson and William M. Conselman, the third adaptation of Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1903 novel of the same name (previously done in 1917 and 1932).

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Shirley Temple

Shirley Temple Black (born Shirley Jane Temple; April 23, 1928 – February 10, 2014) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938.

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Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy is a 1937 American comedy film directed by James Tinling and written by Lou Breslow, Ben Markson and John Patrick.

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Sing Me a Love Song

Sing Me a Love Song is a 1936 American musical film directed by Ray Enright and written by Sig Herzig and Jerry Wald.

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Sound film

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

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That I May Live

That I May Live is a 1937 American crime film directed by Allan Dwan, written by Ben Markson and William M. Conselman, and starring Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Jack La Rue, Frank Conroy and Fred Kelsey.

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The Beautiful Cheat (1945 film)

The Beautiful Cheat is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Charles Barton and written by Ben Markson and Elwood Ullman.

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The Case of the Howling Dog

The Case of the Howling Dog is a 1934 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland, based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Erle Stanley Gardner.

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The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs is a 1935 mystery film, the third in a series of Perry Mason films starring Warren William as the famed lawyer.

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The Cisco Kid (TV series)

The Cisco Kid is a 1950–1956 half-hour American Western television series starring Duncan Renaldo in the title role, the Cisco Kid, and Leo Carrillo as the jovial sidekick, Pancho.

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The Falcon (fictional detective)

The Falcon is the nickname for two fictional detectives.

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The Falcon in San Francisco

The Falcon in San Francisco is a 1945 American crime and mystery film directed by Joseph H. Lewis and stars Tom Conway, Rita Corday and Edward Brophy, who played the recurring role of "Goldie" Locke.

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The Great Mr. Nobody

The Great Mr.

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The Half Naked Truth

The Half Naked Truth is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film starring Lee Tracy and Lupe Vélez, with Frank Morgan and Eugene Pallette in support.

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The River Pirate

The River Pirate is a 1928 American synchronized sound drama film directed by William K. Howard and written by Malcolm Stuart Boylan, Ben Markson and John Reinhardt, based on the 1928 novel by Charles Francis Coe.

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The Silk Express

The Silk Express is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ray Enright and written by Houston Branch and Ben Markson.

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The Smiling Ghost

The Smiling Ghost is a 1941 American horror comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring Wayne Morris, Alexis Smith, and Alan Hale.

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The White Cockatoo

The White Cockatoo is a 1935 American mystery film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Jean Muir, Ricardo Cortez and Ruth Donnelly.

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Thieves Fall Out

Thieves Fall Out is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Eddie Albert and Joan Leslie, with Jane Darwell, Alan Hale, Sr., William T. Orr, and John Litel in support.

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Upperworld

Upperworld is a 1934 American pre-Code drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Warren William as a wealthy married railroad tycoon whose friendship with a showgirl, played by Ginger Rogers, leads to blackmail and murder.

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Victor McLaglen

Victor Andrew de Bier Everleigh McLaglen (10 December 1886 – 7 November 1959) was a British-American actor and boxer.

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Victoria Shaw (actress)

Victoria Shaw (25 May 1935 – 17 August 1988) was an Australian film and television actress.

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What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett with Lowell Sherman.

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Woman-Wise

Woman-Wise is a 1937 American crime film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Ben Markson.

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See also

Screenwriters from Iowa

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Markson

, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938 film), Shirley Temple, Sing and Be Happy, Sing Me a Love Song, Sound film, That I May Live, The Beautiful Cheat (1945 film), The Case of the Howling Dog, The Case of the Lucky Legs, The Cisco Kid (TV series), The Falcon (fictional detective), The Falcon in San Francisco, The Great Mr. Nobody, The Half Naked Truth, The River Pirate, The Silk Express, The Smiling Ghost, The White Cockatoo, Thieves Fall Out, Upperworld, Victor McLaglen, Victoria Shaw (actress), What Price Hollywood?, Woman-Wise.