Charles G. Booth

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Charles G. Booth (1896 - 1949) was a British-born writer who settled in America and wrote several classic Hollywood stories, including The General Died at Dawn (1936) and Sundown (1941). He won an Academy Award for Best Story for The House on 92nd Street in 1945, a thinly disguised version of the "Duquesne Spy Ring saga". He also penned the source story for Paul Mazursky's 1988 film Moon Over Parador.