Harry Kurnitz (January 5, 1908 – March 18, 1968) was an American playwright, novelist, and prolific screenwriter who wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn...
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written to include Clouseau, but was an adaptation of a stage play by Harry Kurnitz adapted from a French play L'Idiote by Marcel Achard. The film was released...
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Witness for the Prosecution was adapted for the screen by Larry Marcus, Harry Kurnitz, and Wilder. The film was acclaimed by critics and received six Academy...
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and produced by Jerry Wald. The screenplay by George Oppenheimer and Harry Kurnitz, based on a story by Herbert Dalmas, has uncredited contributions by...
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Dashiell Hammett Shadow of the Thin Man November 21, 1941 Harry Kurnitz and Irving Brecher Harry Kurnitz The Thin Man Goes Home January 25, 1945 Richard Thorpe...
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Laughton as Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C. The film was adapted by Larry Marcus, Harry Kurnitz and the film's director, Billy Wilder. The film received six Academy...
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The Girl Who Came to Supper is a musical with a book by Harry Kurnitz and music and lyrics by Noël Coward, based on Terence Rattigan's 1953 play The Sleeping...
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Land of the Pharaohs (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
complete fascination," but thought that screenwriter "Faulkner, abetted by Harry Kurnitz and Harold Jack Bloom, has laid a Hollywooden egg." Harrison's Reports...
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Shadow of the Thin Man (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
based on a story by Harry Kurnitz, not Dashiell Hammett, as the previous films had been, with the script written by Harry Kurnitz and Irving Brecher....
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Goodbye Charlie (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
forced Joseph L. Mankiewicz to re-cut Cleopatra (1963)). Playwright Harry Kurnitz was hired to write the script, and Tony Curtis was attached early. Vincente...
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on Broadway in 1961–62 with the title A Shot in the Dark, adapted by Harry Kurnitz and directed by Harold Clurman. The cast included Julie Harris, Walter...
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Once More, with Feeling! (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
appearance and directed and produced by Stanley Donen from a screenplay by Harry Kurnitz, based on his play. The film was released by Columbia Pictures and has...
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63, American actress, Hangman's House, A Face in the Fog March 18 - Harry Kurnitz, 60, American screenwriter, Witness for the Prosecution, How to Steal...
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Connolly Salty O'Rourke Milton Holmes What Next, Corporal Hargrove? Harry Kurnitz 1946 (19th) The Seventh Veil Muriel & Sydney Box‡ The Blue Dahlia Raymond...
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(1985), Seduced (1985), Covenant (1985), Blood & Orchids (1986), Young Harry Houdini, and The Wind in the Willows (1987). Ferrer made his farewell to...
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McCarthy Directed by Howard Hawks Screenplay by Leigh Brackett Story by Harry Kurnitz Produced by Howard Hawks Paul Helmick (associate) Starring John Wayne...
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mustard. Writers Bertram Millhauser and William Bowers keep the story by Harry Kurnitz free of any dull moments. The pic has the following things going for...
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How to Steal a Million (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
release poster by Robert McGinnis Directed by William Wyler Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz Based on "Venus Rising" 1962 story in Practise to Deceive by George...
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Gold of the Seven Saints (with Leonard Freeman), 1961 Hatari! (with Harry Kurnitz), 1962 Man's Favorite Sport? (uncredited), 1964 El Dorado, 1966 Rio...
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Pretty Baby (1950 film) (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
Windust Screenplay by Everett Freeman Harry Kurnitz Story by Jules Furthman John D. Klorer Produced by Harry Kurnitz Starring Dennis Morgan Betsy Drake Zachary...
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Stange The Girl Who Came to Supper 1963 Broadway Noël Coward Coward Harry Kurnitz The Girls 2015 West End Gary Barlow and Tim Firth Barlow and Firth Barlow...
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receiver to manage the theater that March. The receiver booked the Harry Kurnitz play Once More, with Feeling!, which opened in late 1958 and ran for...
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under this contract was Once More, with Feeling! (1960). Adapted by Harry Kurnitz from his own stage play, the film was shot in Paris and starred Yul...
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Dolly! Michael Stewart The Girl Who Came to Supper Noël Coward and Harry Kurnitz High Spirits Timothy Gray and Hugh Martin She Loves Me Joe Masteroff...
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Co-written with Devery Freeman One Touch of Venus No Yes No Co-written with Harry Kurnitz The Paleface No Yes No Co-written with Edmund Hartmann 1949 Miss Grant...
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Eddie. In Brooklyn in 1942, Evelyn Kurnitz has just died following a lengthy illness. Her husband, Eddie Kurnitz, needs to take a job as a traveling...
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One Touch of Venus (film) (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
Theatrical release poster Directed by William A. Seiter Screenplay by Harry Kurnitz Frank Tashlin Produced by William A. Seiter Lester Cowan John Beck (associate)...
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Fast and Furious (1939 film) (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
poster Directed by Busby Berkeley John E. Burch (assistant) Written by Harry Kurnitz Produced by Frederick Stephani Starring Franchot Tone Ann Sothern Cinematography...
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Silk Stockings (1957 film) (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
by Rouben Mamoulian Screenplay by Leonard Gershe Leonard Spigelgass Harry Kurnitz (uncredited) Based on Silk Stockings by George S. Kaufman Leueen MacGrath...
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The Inspector General (1949 film) (category Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz)
General DVD cover Directed by Henry Koster Screenplay by Philip Rapp and Harry Kurnitz Based on Suggested by the play by Nikolai Gogol Produced by Jerry Wald...
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