Charles Schnee

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Charles Schnee (1916 - 1963) gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for the classic western, Red River (1948); the social melodrama, They Live By Night (1949); and the cynical Hollywood saga, The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), for which he won an Academy Award. Schnee worked primarily as a film producer and production executive during the mid-1950s. but eventually turned his attention back to scriptwriting.


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