I. A. R. Wylie - Turner Classic Movies

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Torch Song (1953)

Based on a Story by

Pilgrimage (1933)

Contract Writer

The Grass Orphan (1922)

Novel As Source Material ("The Paupers Of Portman Square")

The Birth of Patriotism (1917)

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Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Envisioned An Older Man

Phone Call From A Stranger (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You're All Married

Biography

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Torch Song (1953)

Based on a Story by

Pilgrimage (1933)

Contract Writer

The Grass Orphan (1922)

Novel As Source Material ("The Paupers Of Portman Square")

The Birth of Patriotism (1917)

Life Events

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Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I Envisioned An Older Man 25 minutes into the picture the first appearance of co-top-billed Katherine Hepburn, as Christine Forrest, mourning widow of national hero Robert, as she meets enterprising and acclaimed reporter O’Malley (Spencer Tracy), who has snuck into her house, in George Cukor’s Keeper Of The Flame, 1942.

Phone Call From A Stranger (1952) -- (Movie Clip) You're All Married Binky (top-billed Shelley Winters), nervous about the weather before her first airplane flight, makes a second approach to Gary Merrill, whom we know is leaving his wife and traveling under an assumed name, when they’re joined by Keenan Wynn and Michael Rennie, with extensive exposition, in Jean Negulesco’s Phone Call From A Stranger, 1952, produced and written by Nunnally Johnson from an I.A.R. Wylie novelette.

Phone Call From A Stranger (1952) -- (Movie Clip) He's Had A Great Deal To Drink In his flashback to events pre-dating the airline flight by about seven years, Michael Rennie as Dr. Fortness (Michael Rennie) shouldn’t be driving, his wife (Beatrice Straight) and colleague Dr. Brooks (Hugh Beaumont) trying to intervene, in Phone Call From A Stranger, 1952.

Phone Call From A Stranger (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Even Though You're Still In Love With Her? Gary Merrill as lawyer Trask visits Bette Davis (Mrs. Merrill, at the time) as Marie, last of the next-of-kin of his fellow travelers who didn’t survive the airline crash, surprised she isn’t the swimsuit ingenue from the photograph her boorish husband showed, in Phone Call From A Stranger, 1952, from an I.A.R. Wylie story.

Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Most Women Spoil You Life From Margaret Wycherly’s noted performance as the deranged mother of deceased national hero Robert Forrest, with mystified but compassionate reporter O’Malley (Spencer Tracy), when widow Christine (Katharine Hepburn) intervenes, in George Cukor’s The Keeper Of The Flame, 1942.

Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Our Follies And Our Failures Returned war correspondent O’Malley (Spencer Tracy) beginning his interview of Christine Forrest (Katharine Hepburn), widow of the national hero he’ll be writing about, when her cousin (Forrest Tucker) and Forrest’s aide (Richard Whorf) interrupt, in The Keeper Of The Flame, 1942.

Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Robert Forrest Killed The dramatic opening, briefly introducing young Darryl Hickman and Howard da Silva, the nation convulsing as we meet Spencer Tracy, as reporter O’Malley, who flags down old friend Jane (Audrey Christie), in George Cukor’s Keeper Of The Flame, 1942, co-starring Katharine Hepburn.

Keeper Of The Flame, The (1942) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Big Man Spencer Tracy as maverick reporter O’Malley, his take on the death of national hero Forrest different than that of his colleagues (Horace McNally, Audrey Christie), drawing the interest of mysterious Forrest Tucker, and press flak Kerndon (Richard Whorf), early in Keeper Of The Flame, 1942.

Torch Song (1953) -- (Movie Clip) Smile, Or We'll Get Another Boy Not-quite-correctly billed as the first-ever shot of Joan Crawford in Technicolor, the opening from director Chuck Walters, who plays dance partner to her Broadway star, the real Gene Loring as the dance director, Harry Morgan playing director, Benny Rubin the pianist, from MGM’s Torch Song, 1953.

Torch Song (1953) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Never Be Lonely Broadway musical star Jenny (Joan Crawford) at home with her trusted assistant Anne (Maidie Norman), having stormed off the rehearsal set for her new show earlier that day in general protest, running some ironic lines, in Joan’s MGM comeback, Torch Song, 1953.

Torch Song (1953) -- (Movie Clip) In Love With The Audience Neither the screenplay nor the underlying short story was written for Joan Crawford as such but one wonders whether these views were hers, as Broadway star Jenny, skipping rehearsals in protest, Gig Young her defeated and detached boyfriend Cliff, in the MGM musical Torch Song, 1953.

Torch Song (1953) -- (Movie Clip) You Mean Like A Girdle? Remaining philosophical at the same restaurant lunch where she had her director fire him, blind pianist Tye (Michael Wilding) inquires with Broadway star Jenny about her motives, and what he learned from Charlie, the long-time accompanist she had driven away, in MGM’s Torch Song, 1953.

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