Oscar Millard

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Oscar Millard 1986 in Salzburg (A)

English writer Oscar Millard (1908 – 1990) found success in Hollywood when he collaborated on the screenplay to the 1949 hit Come to the Stable, a comedy about nuns. He fared better the following year when he picked up an Academy Award nomination for the gritty war movie The Frogmen.

Millard's output after that was less successful though interesting: the James Stewart thriller No Highway in the Sky (1951) and Otto Preminger's full-guns-blazing femme fatale movie No Angel (1952).

Millard's reputation was considerably tarnished (as indeed was everyone involved in the project) with the deliriously bad John Wayne-Susan Hayward barbarian epic The Conqueror (1956), a film probably more famous now for filming in a nuclear bomb testing site and most of the cast and crew succumbing to early, cancer-related deaths.

After that, Millard found consistent work on television, writing scripts for such shows as Wagon Train, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour and Twelve O'Clock High.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 22342991 LCCN: no96062073 ISNI: 0000 0000 8363 8245 GND: 142213314 SUDOC: 058635394

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Name	Millard, Oscar
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Date of birth	1908
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Date of death	1990
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References

Oscar Millard at the Internet Movie Database

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