Biography
John Lee Mahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois β April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was known as the favorite writer of Clark Gable and Victor Fleming. In the words of one profile, he had "a flair for rousing adventure material, and at the same time he wrote some of the raciest and most sophisticated sexual comedies of that period." Mahin was born in Winnetka, Illinois in 1902, the son of John Lee Mahin, Sr. (1869β1930), a Chicago newspaper and advertising man, and Julia Graham Snitzler.Mahin attended Harvard University; while there he reviewed movies and plays for the Boston American at $30 a week. Mahin worked as a journalist for two years in New York, at the Sun, the Post and the City News. He then tried to make a living as an actor, starting as a chorus boy in a production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience at the Province Playhouse. He eventually moved into advertising in New York but wrote fiction on the side.Mahin became friendly with Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, who he would meet on the ferry while commuting to work in New York. Hecht read Mahin's stories and encouraged him to move to Hollywood.
Filmography
all 49
Movies 49
Writer 43
Screenplay 5
The Bad Seed (2018)
Moment to Moment (1966)
The Spiral Road (1962)
North to Alaska (1960)
The Barbarians (1960)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Lucy Gallant (1955)
Elephant Walk (1954)
Mogambo (1953)
My Son John (1952)
Quo Vadis (1951)
Show Boat (1951)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Love That Brute (1950)
Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
The Yearling (1946)
The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
Combat America (1943)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Johnny Eager (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Boom Town (1940)
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
The Last Gangster (1937)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Love on the Run (1936)
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Small Town Girl (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Riffraff (1936)
China Seas (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
Chained (1934)
Treasure Island (1934)
Laughing Boy (1934)
Eskimo (1933)
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Bombshell (1933)
Hell Below (1933)
Red Dust (1932)
Tiger Shark (1932)
Scarface (1932)
The Wet Parade (1932)
The Beast of the City (1932)
The Unholy Garden (1931)
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GenderMale
Birthday1902-08-23
Deathday1984-04-18 (81 years old)
Birth PlaceEvanston, United States of America
RelationshipsPatsy Ruth Miller (1937-01-01 - 1946-01-01)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJohn Lee Mahin Jr.
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