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Georg "George" Froeschel (March 9, 1891 β November 22, 1979) was an Austrian screenwriter best known for Mrs. Miniver, Quentin Durward, and The Story of Three Loves, while working for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. Before working in film he was a lawyer and journalist.
Georg Froeschel was born in 1891, the son of a Jewish banker in Vienna. He wrote his first novel during his time at grammar school, Ein Protest (A Protest). After his postgraduate studies he was Doctor of Laws. In World War I he wrote reports for the k.u.k. army. Following he wrote several novels, of which some were adapted for films in the 1920s. In the 1920s he worked for the Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin.
In 1936 he emigrated to the United States, where he first worked in the editorial office of Chicago's Coronet magazine. His efforts to find a job in Hollywood's film industry were not successful until April 1939, when Sidney Franklin of MGM engaged him as screenwriter.
Froeschel won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay for the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver (along with co-writers James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis).
Filmography
all 26
Movies 25
Writer 25
TV Shows 1
self 1
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany (1975)
I Aim at the Stars (1960)
Mrs. Miniver (1960)
Me and the Colonel (1958)
Gaby (1956)
Quentin Durward (1955)
Betrayed (1954)
Rose Marie (1954)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Never Let Me Go (1953)
Scaramouche (1952)
The Unknown Man (1951)
The Miniver Story (1950)
Command Decision (1948)
They Were Expendable (1945)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Random Harvest (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
We Were Dancing (1942)
The Mortal Storm (1940)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
Skandal in Baden-Baden (1929)
Weib in Flammen (1928)
Der Anwalt des Herzens (1927)
Nora (1923)
Roswolsky's Mistress (1921)
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1891-03-08
Deathday1979-11-22 (88 years old)
Birth PlaceVienna, Austria
CitizenshipsAustria, United States of America
AwardsAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
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