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Dwight Taylor (born January 1, 1902, in New York, United States, died December 31, 1986, Woodland Hills, California) was an American author, playwright, and film and television screenwriter.〔 ==Background== Taylor was the son of playwright Charles A. Taylor and actress Laurette Taylor, and attended Lawrenceville School in Lawrence Township, New Jersey where he began drawing and painting and wrote a book of poetry.〔 After refusing an opportunity to work as a cub reporter for ''The New York World'', he began his career as a journalist for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, serving as one of the first editors for their "Talk of the Town". He began screenwriting for Hollywood films in 1930 and for television in 1953. His first produced play was ''Don't Tell George''〔 (1928). Other plays included such as ''Lipstick''〔 and ''Gay Divorce''. Taylor's first screenplay was ''Jailbreak''. First National Pictures bought the project in 1929 while it was still in manuscript form and had Alfred A. Cohn〔 and Henry McCarty adapt it to become the 1930 film ''Numbered Men'' starring Conrad Nagel and Bernice Claire. ''Gay Divorce'' was adapted into a Broadway musical by Cole Porter. In 1934 RKO Studios, which renamed it ''The Gay Divorcee'' to appease the censors, filmed it with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.〔 He was a founding member, and had served one term as president, of the Writers Guild of America, West.〔 On December 31, 1986, one day short of his 84th birthday, Taylor died of a heart attack at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, California where he had resided since 1981.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dwight Taylor (writer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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