Waldo Salt
Screenwriter, Film writer
1914 – 1987
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Who was Waldo Salt?
Waldo Miller Salt was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. He later won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1914
Chicago - Also known as
- Waldo Pressman Salt
- Waldo Miller Salt
- M.L. Davenport
- Arthur Behrstock
- Mel Davenport
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mary Davenport
(1942 - ) - Gladys Schwartz
(1968 - ) - Eve Merriam
(1983/10/22 - 1987/03/07) - Ambur Dana
(1939 - )
- Mary Davenport
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Stanford University
- Died
- Mar 7, 1987
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013