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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.
Filmography
all 43
Movies 43
Writer 41
Screenplay 1
Cry Danger (1951)
Sand (1949)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Those Who Came Back (1948)
Thunder in the Valley (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
Man Alive (1945)
Captain Eddie (1945)
Winged Victory (1944)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Silver Skates (1943)
Obliging Young Lady (1942)
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
What's Cookin'? (1942)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
They Met in Argentina (1941)
Repent at Leisure (1941)
Play Girl (1941)
The Saint In Palm Springs (1941)
Millionaires in Prison (1940)
Cross-Country Romance (1940)
Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
The Marines Fly High (1940)
Laddie (1940)
Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
Sued for Libel (1939)
Full Confession (1939)
Five Came Back (1939)
Winner Take All (1939)
Inside Story (1939)
The Arizona Wildcat (1939)
Time Out for Murder (1938)
One Wild Night (1938)
Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Island in the Sky (1938)
Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)
Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)
The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
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GenderMale
Birthday1903-08-15
Deathday1948-11-07 (45 years old)
Birth PlaceCabell County, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsJerry Cady
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