Emmet Lavery

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Emmet Lavery was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage and film work in the mid-20th century, including adaptations of notable historical and legal figures.

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Emmet Lavery canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
playwright
screenwriter
activeIn Broadway NERFINISHED
Hollywood NERFINISHED
basedOn The Magnificent Yankee (biographical work about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) NERFINISHED
The Song at the Scaffold (novel by Gertrud von Le Fort) NERFINISHED
life of Billy Mitchell
novel The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand
collaboratedWith Orson Welles NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
employer 20th Century Fox
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
RKO Pictures NERFINISHED
era 20th century American theatre
Hollywood Golden Age
surface form: Golden Age of Hollywood
fieldOfWork film
historical drama
legal drama
theatre
genre drama
screenplay
stage play
hasGender male
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Screen Writers Guild NERFINISHED
notableFor adaptations of legal figures
adaptations of notable historical figures
legal drama adaptations
stage adaptations of historical figures
notableWork The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell NERFINISHED
The Late George Apley NERFINISHED
The Magnificent Yankee NERFINISHED
The Song at the Scaffold NERFINISHED
The Stranger NERFINISHED
screenplay for The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
screenplay for The Late George Apley
screenplay for The Stranger (1946 film)
stage adaptation of The Song at the Scaffold
stage play The Magnificent Yankee
occupation dramatist
playwright
screenwriter
positionHeld officer of the Screen Writers Guild
president of the Screen Writers Guild
workPeriod mid-20th century

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Description of subject: Emmet Lavery was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his stage and film work in the mid-20th century, including adaptations of notable historical and legal figures.

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