Charles G. Booth
Screenwriter, Film writer
1896 – 1949
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Who was Charles G. Booth?
Charles G. Booth was a British-born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn and Sundown. He won an Academy Award for Best Story for The House on 92nd Street in 1945, a thinly disguised version of the FBI "Duquesne Spy Ring saga", which led to the largest espionage conviction in the history of the United States. He also penned the short story "Caviar for His Excellency" which was the basis for the play "The Magnificent Fraud" and was the basis for Paul Mazursky's 1988 film Moon Over Parador.
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- Born
- Feb 12, 1896
Lancashire - Also known as
- Charles Booth
- Charles Gordon Booth
- Nationality
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- May 22, 1949
Beverly Hills
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on July 23, 2013
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