• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Dracula (1931 Spanish-language film) (category Films based on works by John L. Balderston)
    by Bram Stoker and its 1924 play adaptation by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. It follows the eponymous vampire Conde Drácula as he travels from...
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    of Rick O'Connell and his family. Featuring the voices of Jim Cummings, John Schneider, Chris Marquette, Grey DeLisle, and an ensemble of supporting cast...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    production of Dracula, which had been adapted by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. The Horace Liveright production was...
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    Dracula's Daughter (category Films with screenplays by John L. Balderston)
    Selznick hired John L. Balderston, who had previously worked on the 1931 Dracula and Frankenstein, to write the screenplay. Balderston's screenplay involved...
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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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    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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    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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  • the Deane/Balderston interpretation upon which the classic Tod Browning film Dracula (1931) was based. Deane, Hamilton, and John L. Balderston. Dracula:...
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  • Berkeley Square is a play in three acts by John L. Balderston (in collaboration with J.C. Squire) which tells the story of a young American who is transported...
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