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Myles Connolly
Myles Connolly (October 7, 1897 - July 15, 1964) was an American author and Hollywood screenwriter/producer.
Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Connolly was educated at Boston Latin ...view moreMyles Connolly (October 7, 1897 - July 15, 1964) was an American author and Hollywood screenwriter/producer.
Born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Connolly was educated at Boston Latin School and graduated from Boston College in 1918. After serving one year in the U.S. Navy during WWI, he worked as a newspaper reporter with The Boston Post and was a frequent contributor of verse and short stories to national magazines. In 1928 he served on the first board of directors of the Catholic Book Club. Both he and his wife, Agnes (née Bevington), were devout Roman Catholics, each with a sister who was a nun. Their daughter, Mary, also became a nun.
In 1929 Connolly left Boston to work at the Hollywood movie studio Film Booking Office (FBO), financed by his fellow Bostonian Joseph P. Kennedy. He produced his first film, the Frank Craven and Richard Rosson comedy film The Very Idea, in 1929. When FBO became RKO studios in 1930, he served as associate producer for the studio’s earliest Wheeler & Woolsey vehicles. In 1933, he began working as a screenwriter-producer of dramatic films such as The Right to Romance, and went on to help write and produce over 40 films, including the Tarzan pictures of the 1940s.
Connolly was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay for Music for Millions (1944), and in 1951 he shared the nomination for a Hugo award (Best Dramatic Presentation) for the screenplay of Harvey. In 1952, he was nominated for the Best Written American Musical award by the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) for Here Comes the Groom. His last screenwriting credit was MGM’s musical biography of Hans Christian Andersen with Danny Kaye (1952).
Connolly also wrote and published several Roman Catholic parable novels, including Mr. Blue (originally published in 1928). Other novels, including The Bump on Brannigan’s Head (1950) and Dan England and the Noonday Devil (1951), followed.
He died in Santa Monica, California in 1964, aged 66.view less