Yellow Jack is a 1938 film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer based on the 1934 play Yellow Jack . Both were co-written by Sidney Howard and Paul de Kruif (the former a Pulitzer - and Oscar -winning playwright and screenwriter; the latter a well-known microbiologist and author).
8-565: Produced and directed by the legendary Guthrie McClintic , the original Broadway play co-starred James Stewart and Sam Levene and opened at the Martin Beck Theatre, March 6, 1934. Stewart's performance as Sergeant John O'Hara in the Broadway production of Yellow Jack attracted the attention of Hollywood along with a MGM contract. When Yellow Jack was filmed, Stewart was unavailable and replaced by Robert Montgomery . Sam Levene
16-671: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guthrie McClintic Guthrie McClintic (August 6, 1893 – October 29, 1961) was an American theatre director , film director , and producer based in New York. McClintic was born in Seattle , attended Washington University in St. Louis and New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts , and became an actor, but soon became a stage manager and casting director for major Broadway producer Winthrop Ames . His Broadway directorial debut
24-601: The leading Shakespearean actors of the day, giving them their first prominent Broadway roles, including John Gielgud , Ralph Richardson , Maurice Evans , and Laurence Olivier . McClintic died of cancer on October 29, 1961, at his home in Sneden's Landing , New York. His widow retired from acting shortly after his death, her last role being in Jerome Kilty 's dramatization of Dear Liar in 1961. Antigone (Anouilh play) Too Many Requests If you report this error to
32-548: The real volunteers of the Yellow Jack experiment: Yellow Jack celebrates what these men did, rather than what they were. That their heroism, however, should not go unrecorded, their true names are here given: The play and screenplay were adapted for television by Celanese Theatre (1952) and Producers' Showcase (1955), in episodes titled Yellow Jack. Yellow Jack was presented on Philip Morris Playhouse September 5, 1941. This 1930s drama film-related article
40-666: The theatre. McClintic sometimes found roles for the young women in his plays. In what may have been a lavender marriage , gay McClintic was married for forty years to actress Katharine Cornell - herself a lesbian. After they were married, they formed a production team M.C. & C Company, which produced plays for the rest of his life. He directed every play that Cornell starred in, including Romeo and Juliet , Candida , Antony and Cleopatra , No Time for Comedy , Antigone , Saint Joan , The Doctor's Dilemma , Three Sisters , and There Shall Be No Night , and The Constant Wife . Their production company brought over many of
48-474: The theory by the Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that the disease was caused by bites of infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a concept which had been ridiculed. The dramas portrayed the soldiers who volunteered to be human "guinea pigs" by allowing themselves to be bitten and contract the deadly disease, for which no cure was then known. (See History of yellow fever .) The movie ends with the following tribute to
56-510: Was on A. A. Milne 's The Dover Road . McClintic's first major success was on The Barretts of Wimpole Street featuring his wife, the American actress Katharine Cornell , in 1931. He also directed Hamlet featuring John Gielgud in New York in 1936. Katharine Cornell served on the Board of Directors of The Rehearsal Club, a place where young actresses could stay while looking for work in
64-578: Was the only member of the original Broadway cast to also appear in the movie. The supporting cast also features Lewis Stone , Andy Devine , Henry Hull , Charles Coburn and Buddy Ebsen . The plot line follows the events of the well-known "Walter Reed Boards", in which Major Walter Reed of the United States Army worked to diagnose and treat yellow fever (called “yellow jack”) in Cuba in 1898–1900. The U.S. Army Medical Corps doctors studied
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