• John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best remembered for...
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  • John Balderston may refer to: John L. Balderston (1889–1954), American playwright and screenwriter John Balderston (academic) (died 1719), vice-chancellor...
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  • playwright Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by the American writer John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897...
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  • Red Planet Mars (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    Andrea King. It is based on a 1932 play Red Planet written by John L. Balderston and John Hoare and was directed by art director Harry Horner in his directorial...
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    Gaslight (1944 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton's play Gas Light (1938), it...
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    directors including Florey, E.A. Dupont, Cyril Gardner, and screenwriters John L. Balderston, Preston Sturges, and Garrett Fort all signing on to develop the project...
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  • politician from Maryland John Balderston (Cambridge) (died 1719), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge John L. Balderston (1889–1954), an American playwright...
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    Dracula (1931 English-language film) (category Films based on works by John L. Balderston)
    It is based on the 1924 stage play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which in turn is adapted from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker...
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    Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film) (category Films based on works by John L. Balderston)
    Dracula by Bram Stoker and the play Dracula by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. The film is about Renfield (Pablo Alvarez Rubio), who travels to...
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    The Mummy (1932 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    supernatural horror film directed by Karl Freund. The screenplay by John L. Balderston was adapted from a treatment written by Nina Wilcox Putnam and Richard...
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  • and directed by Stephen Sommers, starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah and Arnold Vosloo in the title role as the reanimated mummy. It is...
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  • Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1926 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated. The musical...
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    Frankenstein (1931 film) (category Films based on works by John L. Balderston)
    John L. Balderston and the screenplay written by Francis Edward Faragoh and Garrett Fort, with uncredited contributions from Robert Florey and John Russell...
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  • Boys Claw Dracula (1924 play), by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston Dracula (1995 play), by John Godber and Jane Thornton Dracula (1996 play), by Steven...
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  • The Last of the Mohicans (1992 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    Michael Mann, Christopher Crowe, Daniel Moore, James Fenimore Cooper, John L. Balderston, Paul Perez, Philip Dunne: Movies & TV". Amazon. November 23, 1999...
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  • father). This was almost certainly based on the Hamilton Deane - John L. Balderston stage adaptation. Sometimes he is portrayed as just a doctor with...
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    Mad Love (1935 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    on early drafts. Producer John W. Considine Jr. assigned the continuity and dialogue to P.J. Wolfson, and John L. Balderston began to write a "polish-up"...
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    and Bernard Jukes in English productions. The play was revised by John. L. Balderston for American audiences in 1927. In the revised version Renfield survives...
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  • The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    written by Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, and Achmed Abdullah. The setting and title come from the 1930 autobiography...
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  • The Last of the Mohicans (1936 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    worked on the script with John L. Balderston. Dunne later claimed that the final film: Is only a pallid ghost of what John and I originally wrote. Ours...
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  • came in second and Casey Robinson third. This means Waldemar Young, John L. Balderston, Achmed Abdullah, Grover Jones, and William Slavens McNutt came in...
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  • Dracula (1979 film) (category Films based on works by John L. Balderston)
    novel Dracula is based on the stage adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which ran on Broadway and also starred Langella in a Tony Award-nominated...
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    Liveright bought the American dramatic rights from Florence and hired John L. Balderston to edit it for the New York stage. The show ran for a year on Broadway...
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  • nominated for an Academy Award in any category; Nomination shared with John L. Balderston, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt, and Waldemar Young 70th 1997...
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    producer Horace Liveright, who hired John L. Balderston to revise the play for American audiences. As a result of Balderston's revision, the names of female...
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  • turned into a film released in 1975. Berkeley Square, a 1929 play by John L. Balderston Berkeley Square, a 1933 film On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, a...
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  • play was brought to Broadway by producer Horace Liveright, who hired John L. Balderston to revise the script for American audiences. The role of Van Helsing...
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    Bride of Frankenstein (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    bringing it to life. Balderston also created the Mary Shelley prologue. After several months Whale was still not satisfied with Balderston's work and handed...
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    remake. It was adapted by Edward Rose, (dramatisation) Wells Root, John L. Balderston, Noel Langley and Donald Ogden Stewart (additional dialogue, originally...
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  • Berkeley Square (1933 film) (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    18th-century ancestor." The film was based on the play of the same name by John L. Balderston, itself loosely based on Henry James' incomplete 1917 novel, The Sense...
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