Biography
Claude Binyon (October 17, 1905 Chicago, Illinois – February 14, 1978 Glendale, California) was a screenwriter and director. His genres were comedy, musicals, and romances.
As a Chicago-based journalist for the Examiner newspaper, he became city editor of the show business trade magazine Variety in the late 1920s. According to Robert Landry, who worked at Variety for 50 years including as managing editor, Binyon came up with the famous 1929 stock market crash headline, "Wall Street Lays An Egg." (However, writer Ken Bloom ascribes the headline to Variety publisher Sime Silverman.)He switched from writing about movies for Variety to screenwriting for the Paramount Studio with 1932's If I Had A Million; his later screenwriting credits included The Gilded Lily (1935), Sing You Sinners (1938), and Arizona (1940). Throughout the 1930s, Binyon's screenplays were often directed by Wesley Ruggles, including the "classic" True Confession (1938). Fourteen feature films by Ruggles had screenplays by Binyon. Claude Binyon was also the scriptwriter for the second series of the Bing Crosby Entertains radio show (1934-1935).
In 1948, Binyon made his directorial bow with The Saxon Charm (1948), for which he also wrote the screenplay. He went on to write and direct the low-key comedy noir Stella (1950), Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), Aaron Slick of Pun'kin Crick (1952), and the Clifton Webb farce Dreamboat (1952). He directed, but didn't write, Family Honeymoon (1949) as well as Bob Hope's sole venture into 3-D, Here Come the Girls (1953).
After his death on February 14, 1978, he was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Filmography
all 56
Movies 54
Writer 46
Director 8
TV Shows 2
Screenplay 1
Adam's Rib (1973)
Kisses for My President (1964)
Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Pepe (1960)
North to Alaska (1960)
Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
Sing Boy Sing (1958)
You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
Woman's World (1954)
Here Come the Girls (1953)
Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1953)
Dreamboat (1952)
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Emergency Wedding (1950)
My Blue Heaven (1950)
Stella (1950)
Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950)
Family Honeymoon (1948)
The Saxon Charm (1948)
Suddenly It's Spring (1947)
Cross My Heart (1946)
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
Incendiary Blonde (1945)
And the Angels Sing (1944)
This Is the Army (1943)
Dixie (1943)
No Time for Love (1943)
Holiday Inn (1942)
Take a Letter, Darling (1942)
You Belong to Me (1941)
Arizona (1940)
Too Many Husbands (1940)
Invitation to Happiness (1939)
Sing, You Sinners (1938)
True Confession (1937)
I Met Him in Paris (1937)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
The Bride Comes Home (1935)
Accent on Youth (1935)
The Daring Young Man (1935)
Stolen Harmony (1935)
Mississippi (1935)
The Gilded Lily (1935)
It's a Gift (1934)
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Shoot the Works (1934)
The Old-Fashioned Way (1934)
Many Happy Returns (1934)
Search for Beauty (1934)
Girl without a Room (1933)
The Way to Love (1933)
College Humor (1933)
Gambling Ship (1933)
If I Had a Million (1932)
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GenderMale
Birthday1905-10-17
Deathday1978-02-14 (72 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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