Adrian Scott

Producer, Screenwriter

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Birth Place

Arlington, New Jersey, USA

Born

February 06, 1912

Died

December 25, 1972

Biography

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Magazine editor turned screenwriter who became a producer with RKO in 1943. Scott was responsible for such films as the Raymond Chandler adaptation, "Murder, My Sweet" (1944; from "Farewell My Lovely"), and the biting indictment of anti-Semitism, "Crossfire" (1947). His career was ended when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and he served a y...

Filmography

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The Doors (1991)

Lust For Freedom (1987)

The Great Man's Whiskers (1973)

Play As Source Material

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

Mr. Lucky (1943)

Silver Queen (1942)

Contract Writer

Photos & Videos

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Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Murder

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Go To Mexico!

Family & Companions

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Anne Shirley

Wife

Actor. Married 1945, divorced 1949; her last film was the Scott production "Murder, My Sweet" (1944).

Biography

Magazine editor turned screenwriter who became a producer with RKO in 1943. Scott was responsible for such films as the Raymond Chandler adaptation, "Murder, My Sweet" (1944; from "Farewell My Lovely"), and the biting indictment of anti-Semitism, "Crossfire" (1947). His career was ended when he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 and he served a year in prison as one of the "Hollywood Ten." His fate was sealed by the damning testimony of Edward Dmytryk, who directed the majority of Scott's films.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Doors (1991)

Lust For Freedom (1987)

Writer (Feature Film)

The Great Man's Whiskers (1973)

Play As Source Material

Miss Susie Slagle's (1946)

Mr. Lucky (1943)

Silver Queen (1942)

Contract Writer

The Parson of Panamint (1941)

We Go Fast (1941)

The Secret Seven (1940)

Contract Writer

Keeping Company (1940)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Great Man's Whiskers (1973)

Crossfire (1947)

So Well Remembered (1947)

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Cornered (1945)

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

My Pal Wolf (1944)

Life Events

1940

Screenwriting debut, "Keeping Company"

1944

First film as producer, "Farewell My Lovely"

1947

Refused to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee; later sentenced to one year in prison

Videos

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Murder Dark and dramatic opening to Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire, 1947, starring Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan and Gloria Grahame, from a novel by Richard Brooks.

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Go To Mexico! Discharged soldiers Keeley (Robert Mitchum) and Williams (Richard Benedict) visit buddy Floyd (Steve Brodie) who sort of witnessed a murder, hoping to help out the implicated Mitchell, another guy in the outfit, not knowing the (probably) real villain Monty (Robert Ryan) has already gotten to him, in Edward Dmytryk’s Crossfire, 1947.

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Nobody Likes Cops Mary Mitchell (Jacqueline White) and Washington D.C. cop Finlay (Robert Young), trying to help her recently discharged soldier murder-suspect husband, visit taxi-dancer Ginny (Gloria Grahame), who should be able to give him an alibi, in Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire, 1947.

Crossfire (1947) -- (Movie Clip) I Must Have The Wrong Place In the opening we saw two guys, maybe military, leaving an apartment after a fight, so now we see the guy’s dead, Robert Young a Washington, D.C. cop, Jacqueline Price the gal who reported it, and Robert Ryan as soldier lurking outside the door, in Edward Dmytryk’s celebrated Crossfire, 1947.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) The Sailor Took It Blind "Sleepy" (Marvin Miller) having walked upstairs during credits, woozy Edna (Lola Lane) finds the money she owes him gone, from a story by Cornell Woolrich, script by Clifford Odets, the only film by noted stage director Harold Clurman, Deadline At Dawn, 1946, starring Susan Hayward.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) It Rhymes With Moon Savvy New York taxi-dancer June (Susan Hayward) has volunteered to accompany small-town on-leave sailor Alex (Bill Williams) as he tries to return a bundle of cash he thinks he must have stolen while drunk, in Deadline At Dawn, 1946, from a Cornell Woolrich story.

Deadline At Dawn (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Let's Melt Some Ice Together Sailor Alex (Bill Williams), secretly afraid he’s committed a murder while drunk, is reluctant to part with kindly cabbie Gus (Paul Lukas), but meets taxi-dancer June (Susan Hayward) back at the scene, both discovering they still haven’t found evidence clearing him, in Deadline At Dawn, 1946.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Familiar With Jade? Raymond Chandler's famous P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell) narrating, as Anne (Anne Shirley) introduces him to her father Grayle (Miles Mander) and his wife Helen (Claire Trevor) for a talk about stolen jade, in Murder, My Sweet, directed by Edward Dmytryk.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) The Smoke Didn't Move Fake psychic and jewel thief Amthor (Otto Kruger) tricking thug Moose (Mike Mazurki) into throttling P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell), whom he earlier hired to find his girlfriend, who then enters his second semi-conscious episode, in Murder, My Sweet, 1944, directed by Edward Dmytryk, from a Raymond Chandler novel.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You're A Private Eye Temporarily blinded P-I Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) begins the flashback, with director Edward Dmytryk's famous introduction of Moose Malone (Mike Mazurki), early in Murder, My Sweet, 1944, from Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) You Do Your Own Typing? Anne Shirley (as "Ann Grayle"), posing as a reporter, not fooling P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell), who's determined to find out who killed his client, in Murder, My Sweet, 1944, from Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely.

Murder, My Sweet (1944) -- (Movie Clip) A Black Pool Opened Up Flinty P-I Marlowe (Dick Powell) expresses distaste as he agrees to help foppish Marriott (Douglas Walton) execute a trade, in Edward Dmytryk's Murder,My Sweet, 1944, from a Raymond Chandler novel.

Keeping Company - (Original Trailer) The engagement of a young man (John Shelton) is jeopardized by the return of an old girlfriend (Virginia Grey).

Crossfire - (Original Trailer) When a Jewish man is murdered, a homicide detective suspects a hate crime in Crossfire (1947) starring Robert Ryan in one of his best performances.

Murder, My Sweet - (Original Trailer) Dick Powell plays detective Phillip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet (1944) based on the Raymond Chandler novel Farewell, My Lovely.

Mr. Lucky - (Original Trailer) A gambling-ship owner is out to fleece a beautiful society woman, but falls in love in Mr. Lucky (1943) starring Cary Grant.

Cornered - (Original Trailer) Dick Powell stars as a World War II veteran who hunts down the Nazi collaborators who killed his wife in the film noir thriller Cornered (1945).

Companions

Anne Shirley

Wife

Actor. Married 1945, divorced 1949; her last film was the Scott production "Murder, My Sweet" (1944).

Bibliography

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