John L. Balderston

John L. Balderston (22 de Octubre de 1889, en Filadelfia, Pensilvania - March 8, En 1954, en Los Ángeles, California) por lo que en American and playwright screenwriter best known for his horror y la fantasía scripts. Balderston began his career as a un periodista. He worked as European fue corresponsal during World War I. He was the editor de Outlook magazine and a correspondent for the New York World. En 1927, pp lo retained by Horacio Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptación de Drácula for its American production. His 1929 play Berkeley Square later formed the base of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. His Drácula subsequently formed the base of the 1931 versión cinematográfica, leading Balderston into a guiones career, initially for Universal Pictures horror película: in addition to Drácula, pp contributed to Frankenstein, la Novia de Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula's Daughter. He spent much of his career adapting novelas for the screen, including The Prisoner of Zenda en 1937 and 1944's Gaslight, which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first lo for 1935's The Lives of a Bengal Lancer). He was one of the team of writers oms collaborated on the 1939 película adaptation of Gone with the Wind. His 1932 play Planeta Rojo lo filmed as Red Planet Mars en 1952.