James Edward Grant

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

James E. Grant

Birth Place

Illinois, USA

Born

July 02, 1905

Died

February 19, 1966

Biography

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James Edward Grant brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. In 1945, he produced "The Great John L." Grant began his entertainment career in film writing following credits on "Whipsaw" (1935), "Grand Jury" (1936) and "Great Guy" (1936). He also appeared in "Big Brown Eyes" (1936), the William Powell comedy "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" (1936) a...

Filmography

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Ring of Fear (1954)

Angel and the Badman (1947)

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

Hostile Guns (1967)

Circus World (1964)

Donovan's Reef (1963)

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Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes!

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses

Biography

James Edward Grant brought many screenplays to Hollywood throughout the course of his Hollywood career. In 1945, he produced "The Great John L." Grant began his entertainment career in film writing following credits on "Whipsaw" (1935), "Grand Jury" (1936) and "Great Guy" (1936). He also appeared in "Big Brown Eyes" (1936), the William Powell comedy "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford" (1936) and "Danger - Love at Work" (1937). Toward the end of his career, Grant wrote the John Wayne drama "Hondo" (1953), "The Last Wagon" (1956) with Richard Widmark and the Charlton Heston western "Three Violent People" (1957). He also appeared in "Proud Rebel" (1958) with Alan Ladd. Grant was most recently credited in "Support Your Local Gunfighter" (1971). Grant was nominated for a Writing (Story and Screenplay--Written Directly For the Screen) Academy Award for "The Sheepman" in 1958. Grant passed away in February 1966 at the age of 61.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Ring of Fear (1954)

Angel and the Badman (1947)

Writer (Feature Film)

Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

Hostile Guns (1967)

Circus World (1964)

Donovan's Reef (1963)

McLintock! (1963)

The Comancheros (1961)

The Alamo (1960)

Original Screenplay

The Sheepman (1958)

Based on a Story by

The Sheepman (1958)

Three Violent People (1957)

The Last Wagon (1956)

Ring of Fear (1954)

Lone Star (1952)

Contract Writer

Big Jim McLain (1952)

Two of a Kind (1951)

From a story by

Flying Leathernecks (1951)

Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Father Is a Bachelor (1950)

Surrender (1950)

California Passage (1950)

Surrender (1950)

Rock Island Trail (1950)

Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)

The Plunderers (1948)

Based on an Original story by

Angel and the Badman (1947)

Incendiary Blonde (1945)

Contract Writer

The Great John L. (1945)

Original Screenplay

Gambler's Choice (1944)

From an Original story

Belle of the Yukon (1944)

Written for Screen by

Johnny Eager (1942)

Johnny Eager (1942)

Based on an Original story by

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

From a story by

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

They Dare Not Love (1941)

I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby (1940)

Music in My Heart (1940)

Story and Screenplay

Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Miracles for Sale (1939)

We're Going to Be Rich (1938)

There's That Woman Again (1938)

She Had to Eat (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

She's No Lady (1937)

Danger - Love at Work (1937)

Women Men Marry (1937)

Grand Jury (1936)

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Alamo (1960)

Associate Producer

The Great John L. (1945)

Life Events

1945

Produced "The Great John L"

1949

Directed "Angel and the Badman"

Videos

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) We Don't Have Shoes! Still not committed to the Chalotte kids (Gary Gray with Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow and Mary Jane Saunders) who have mostly adopted him, drifter-singer Johnny (William Holden) is assailed by do-gooder Prudence (second billed Colleen Gray, in her first scene) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Father Was A Bachelor (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I Kinda Steer Clear Of Houses After an opening scene singing in blackface in a minstrel-medicine show, in which his colleague (Charles Winninger) wound up jailed, Johnny (William Holden) takes up fishing and meets the Chalotte kids (Mary Jane Saunders, Gary Gray and Billy Gray, Warren and Wayne Farlow) in Father Was A Bachelor, 1950.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Punchinello Celebrating their engagement, with a reprise of a Bob Wright-Chet Forrest original, this is the only musical bit in the picture for Rita Hayworth, as Manhattanite Patricia, because it’s really a vehicle for Tony Martin, as singer Bob, support from Edith Fellows, George Tobias and George Humbert, in Music In My Heart, 1940.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Blue World Star Tony Martin as singer Bob, with an Academy Award-nominated Bob Wright-Chet Forrest tune, which charted for 14 weeks, has won a radio gig, and we cut away to listener Rita Hayworth, who’s back with her millionaire boyfriend (Alan Mowbray), because she thinks Tony deceived her, which we’ll soon learn he hasn’t, near the end of Columbia’s Music In My Heart, 1940.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) You Catching The Boat? We've already met Tony Martin as English singer Bob, happily rushing to a Manhattan dock because he's being deported after a big breakthrough performance, and now he meets Rita Hayworth as Patricia, also headed to the boat, Don Brodie the winning cabbie, in Columbia's Music in My Heart, 1940.

Music In My Heart (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Oh, What A Lovely Dream! Through a flimsy plot device in this Columbia Pictures vehicle for non-contract star Tony Martin, he’s been recruited to sing for a Manhattan politician (Joseph Crehan), from the neighborhood where his prospective new girlfriend Pat (Rita Hayworth) lives, and plays piano, with a Bob Wright-Chet Forrest original, in Music In My Heart, 1940.

Johnny Eager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) High And Handsome Opening scene, Robert Taylor (title character), evidently a cabbie, drops in on his parole officer Verne (Henry O'Neill), his aide Miss Mines (Leona Maricle) not interested, but visiting students (Diana Lewis, Lana Turner) are, in Mervyn LeRoy's Johny Eager, 1943.

Johnny Eager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) Things Like Crime Racketeer Robert Taylor (title character) with second-cousins Matilda (Robin Raymond) and Peg (Connie Gilchrist), who are alibis for his parole officer Verne (Henry O'Neill), who drops in unannounced with students Judy (Diana Lewis) and Lisbeth (Lana Turner), early in Johnny Eager, 1943.

Johnny Eager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) A Modern Boswell Paroled Robert Taylor (title character), still in the rackets but posing as a cabbie, walks in on girlfriend Garnet (Patricia Dane) and dipsomaniac sidekick Jeff (Van Heflin, his first scene) in Mervyn LeRoy's Johnny Eager, 1942.

Proud Rebel, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) The Dog's Not For Sale Breeder Bates (James Westerfield) appears as Chandler and his mute son (Alan Ladd and son David), with their awesome dog, wrangle the sheep the Burleighs (Thomas Pittman, Dean Jagger, Dean Stanton) stampeded onto their employer’s (Olivia de Havilland) crops, in The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Proud Rebel, The (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Pay His Fine Southerner Chandler (Alan Ladd) in Illinois, framed by the Burleighs (Thomas Pittman, Dean Jagger, Dean Stanton), who poured liquor on him after starting a fight, Henry Hull the judge, bystander Linnett (Olivia de Havilland) backing his mute son (Ladd’s son David), in The Proud Rebel, 1958.

Alamo, The (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You Must Be Jim Bowie! Maybe emulating his mentor John Ford’s comedy mode, writer-director John Wayne contrives for his character, Tennesseean Davy Crocket, to meet Texan Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and his renowned knife, through an after-hours brawl, in The Alamo, 1960.

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