George Bradshaw (writer)

George Wetzel Bradshaw (January 21, 1909, Union, West Virginia – June 15, 1973, Cabell, West Virginia) – American writer and journalist.

Graduated from Princeton University in 1930. During the WWII he was a major in the Army Air Force.

Wrote about 150 short stories printed in Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan.

Books

• 1962: Practise to Deceive (13 stories)
• five cookbooks

Movies

• 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

Links

• Imdb