George Bradshaw (writer)
George Bradshaw (1907–1973) was an American writer and journalist.
Life
George Floing Bradshaw was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 18, 1907. He was the only child of George Calvert Bradshaw (1880-1921) and Caroline Elizabeth Floing Bradshaw Cunningham (1876-1960). He graduated from Princeton University in 1930. During World War II he was a major in the Army Air Force.[1] He died in New York, New York, on November 11, 1973.
Works
He wrote about 150 short stories which were printed in Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post,[2] and Cosmopolitan.[1]
Books
- 1962: Practise to Deceive (13 stories)
- Five cookbooks:
- Bradshaw, George (1973). Soufflés, Quiches, Mousses & the Random Egg. André Deutsch. ISBN 978-0-233-96400-3.
Films
- 1937: New Faces of 1937. Based on the story "Shoestring"
- 1939: The Lady and the Mob. Story "Old Mrs. Leonard and the Machine Guns"
- 1939: Second Fiddle. Story "When Winter Comes"
- 1952: The Bad and the Beautiful. Story "Of Good and Evil" (longer version is called Memorial to a Bad Man). Charles Schnee received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
- 1953: Letter to Loretta (TV Series), episode "Love Story".
- 1958: Matinee Theatre (TV Series), episode "The Phony Venus".
- 1966: How to Steal a Million, based on a story "Venus Rising" in Practise to Deceive
References
- ^ a b "George Bradshaw, Writer, Dies; Many Stories Adapted as Films". The New York Times. November 13, 1973. p. 48.
- ^ "George Bradshaw". The Saturday Evening Post. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
