Brown Holmes
Brown Holmes (December 12, 1907, Toledo, Ohio – February 12, 1974, Los Angeles County, California) was an American screenwriter who worked for several major Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 1940s. Among his credits are several highly regarded prison films: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)[1], 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) and Castle on the Hudson (1940). He was a screenwriter for the Perry Mason film The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935) as well as adding "'snappy' rhythm"[2] dialog to the prior film in the series, The Case of the Curious Bride (1935). He also wrote or co-wrote two adaptations of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 detective novel The Maltese Falcon: The Maltese Falcon (1931) and Satan Met a Lady (1936).[3]
About Three Blind Mice (1938), which was written with Lynn Sterling, Edwin Schallert of Los Angeles Times wrote, "Three Blind Mice moves with marked zip once its story really starts evolving. The dialogue is ingenious, and all due praise for that to the writers".[4]
Holmes married a Janet Banks, a secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in 1933.[5]
Partial filmography
- The Maltese Falcon (1931)
- Play Girl (1932)
- The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)
- Street of Women (1932)
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)[6][7]
- 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)[8]
- Ladies They Talk About (1933)
- The Avenger (1933)
- The Stranger's Return (1933)
- Dark Hazard (1934)
- Heat Lightning (1934)[6]
- I Sell Anything (1934)[9]
- While the Patient Slept (1935) (add. dialogue)
- The Florentine Dagger (1935) (add. dialogue)
- The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) (add. dialogue)
- We're in the Money (1935)[6]
- The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
- Snowed Under (1936)
- Satan Met a Lady (1936)
- The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
- Three Blind Mice (1938)
- Castle on the Hudson (1940)
- Moon Over Miami (1941)
- Shed No Tears (1948)[8]
References
- ↑ Schatz, Thomas (2015-06-02). The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 978-1-62779-645-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Bounds, J. Dennis (1996). Perry Mason : the authorship and reproduction of a popular hero. Internet Archive. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-29809-7. Search this book on
- ↑ Friedrich, Otto (1987-06-14). "THE STUFF DREAMS ARE MADE OF". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
- ↑ Schallert, Edwin. "Three Blind Mice' heads summertime show bill. Los Angeles Times. 23 June 1938: 8. Via Proquest.
- ↑ "Studio couple will be married". The Los Angeles Times. 1933-05-31. p. 16. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Nollen, Scott A. Glenda Farrell: Hollywood’s Hardboiled Dame. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. Search this book on
- ↑ "Realism marks Paul Muni's Picture". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. 1932-11-11. p. 10. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Brown Holmes will write script for Frost picture". Valley Times. 1947-12-08. p. 11. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
- ↑ "High-power salesman in hilarious comedy". The News Journal. 1934-12-20. p. 28. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
External links
- Brown Holmes on IMDb
- Brown Holmes at AllMovie
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