Nora Johnson (January 31, 1933 – October 5, 2017) was an American author.
13-539: Nora Johnson, daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, was born in Hollywood , California in 1933. She was educated at the Brearley School , Abbot Academy , and Smith College , from which she graduated in 1954. Her sister was the film editor Marjorie Fowler . Her first novel, The World of Henry Orient [ Wikidata ] , inspired by her experiences at the Brearley School ,
26-654: A Mississippi native. The two were married at the home of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes in Nyack-on-the-Hudson on February 4, 1940. They had three children. They resided in a mansion located at 625 Mountain Drive in Beverly Hills, California. It was designed by architect Paul R. Williams . Actor Jack Johnson is his grandson. Johnson died of pneumonia in Hollywood in 1977 and was interred in
39-700: The Savannah Press , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , the New York Evening Post and the New York Herald Tribune . He also wrote short stories, and a collection of these stories, titled There Ought to Be a Law , was published in 1930. His first connection with film work was the sale of screen rights to one of his stories in 1927. Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism in 1932. When this request
52-659: The Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Director Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . In 1964, Johnson adapted his daughter Nora Johnson's novel, The World of Henry Orient , into a film of the same title , starring Peter Sellers . His first marriage in 1919 at Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights,
65-632: The Central of Georgia Railway . His mother founded what later became the PTA in Columbus, and was the first woman to serve on the Muscogee County Board of Education. Johnson Elementary School in Columbus was built and named for her in 1949. Nunnally graduated from Columbus High School in 1915. While living in Columbus in 1919, at 1312 Third Street, Nunnally was a second lieutenant in
78-474: The field artillery reserve corps of the U.S. Army during World War I . His brother Cecil graduated from Georgia Tech in 1924, married Gene Clair Norris, and moved to Bellingham, Washington, where he was first a gas department superintendent and later a vice president with Puget Sound Power & Light . Johnson began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun ,
91-550: The Day (1968). He also wrote the 1943 Broadway play The World's Full of Girls . Nunnally Johnson was born on December 5, 1897, in Columbus, Georgia , the elder of two sons born to Johnnie Pearl (née Patrick) and James Nunnally Johnson. He and his younger brother, Cecil Patrick Johnson, were raised in Columbus. Their father was a journeyman mechanic, turned tinsmith and coppersmith, turned pipe and sheetmetal shop superintendent for
104-634: The Window (1944), The Mudlark (1950), The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). As a playwright he wrote the books for several Broadway musicals , including the musical revue Shoot the Works (1931), Arthur Schwartz 's Park Avenue (1946), Bob Merrill 's Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), and Jule Styne 's Darling of
117-401: Was denied, he decided to move to Hollywood and work directly in the film industry. Finding work as a scriptwriter, Johnson was hired full-time as a writer by 20th Century-Fox in 1935. He began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz . Johnson also directed several films in the 1950s, including two starring Gregory Peck . He was nominated for
130-476: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Grapes of Wrath and in 1956, he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . Some of his other notable films include Tobacco Road (1941), The Moon Is Down (1943), Casanova Brown (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Woman in
143-405: Was not specified. Nunnally Johnson Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright. As a filmmaker, he wrote the screenplays to more than fifty films in a career that spanned from 1927 to 1967. He also produced more than half of the films he wrote scripts for and directed eight of those movies. In 1940 he
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#1732791676202156-1028: Was published in 1956, and was made into a motion picture starring Peter Sellers in 1964. Her influential article Sex and the College Girl , was published in the November 1957 issue of The Atlantic Monthly , discussing attitudes towards sex on American campuses. Johnson's other works include A Step Beyond Innocence (Little, Brown, 1961); Loveletter in the Dead-Letter Office (Delacorte, 1966); Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson (Doubleday, 1979); You Can Go Home Again: An Intimate Journey (Doubleday, 1982); The Two of Us (Simon & Schuster , 1984); Tender Offer (Simon & Schuster, 1985); Uncharted Places (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Perfect Together (E. P. Dutton, 1991). Johnson died on October 5, 2017, in Dallas , Texas; cause of death
169-521: Was to Alice Love Mason, with whom he had one daughter, film editor Marjorie Fowler . Mason was an editor with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Mason and Johnson divorced in 1920. His second marriage was to Marion Byrnes in 1927, also a staff member of the Daily Eagle , with whom he also had a daughter, Nora Johnson . Byrnes's and Johnson's marriage ended in 1938. While filming The Grapes of Wrath , Johnson met his third wife, actress Dorris Bowdon ,
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