Jerome Cady

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1903-08-15 (45 years old)

Deathday

1948-11-07

Place of Birth

Cabell County, West Virginia, USA

Jerome Cady

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 fu...

Production

1951

Cry Danger

as Story

1948

Call Northside 777

as Screenplay

1944

1943

Guadalcanal Diary

as Adaptation

1939

Five Came Back

as Screenplay

1947

Forever Amber

as Writer

1938

1941

Play Girl

as Screenplay

1945

Man Alive

as Story

1939

Inside Story

as Writer

1939

Sued for Libel

as Screenplay

1940

1940

Laddie

as Writer

1943

Silver Skates

as Writer

1939

Two Thoroughbreds

as Screenplay

1949

Sand

as Writer

1939

Full Confession

as Screenplay

1941

1942

What's Cookin'?

as Screenplay

1938

Time Out for Murder

as Screenplay

1940

1939

1939

The Arizona Wildcat

as Screenplay

1944

1944

1944

Wing and a Prayer

as Screenplay

1940

1941

1938

Island in the Sky

as Original Story

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