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Frank Stanley Nugent (May 27, 1908 – December 29, 1965) was an American journalist, film reviewer, script doctor, and screenwriter who wrote 21 film scripts, 11 for director John Ford. He wrote almost a thousand reviews for ''The New York Times'' before leaving journalism for Hollywood. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1953 and twice won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Comedy. The Writers Guild of America, West ranks his screenplay for ''The Searchers'' (1956) among the top 101 screenplays of all time. == Early life and film criticism== Nugent was born in New York City on May 27, 1908, the son of Frank H. and Rebecca Roggenburg Nugent. He graduated from Regis High School in 1925 and studied journalism at Columbia University, graduating in 1929, where he worked on the student newspaper, the ''Columbia Spectator''. He started his journalism career as a news reporter with the ''New York Times'' in 1929 and in 1934 moved to reviewing films for that newspaper. At the end of 1936 he succeeded Andre Sennwald as its motion picture editor and critic, a post he held until 1940. In that position he wrote very favorable reviews of ''Show Boat'' in 1936, and of ''The Wizard of Oz'' and ''Gone With the Wind'' in 1939. One account of his output at the ''Times'' says that "He was known for his acerbic wit and poison-tipped pen, and even his news articles had verve and voice; his features were chatty, clever, and intimate, if occasionally smug." He praised director John Ford without reservation, writing of ''Stagecoach'' in 1939: And of Ford's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' he wrote: His critiques were sometimes sharp-tongued. He called ''Mannequin'' with Joan Crawford and Spencer Tracy a "glib, implausible and smart-gowned little drama, as typical Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as Leo himself". Of ''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1940), he wrote: "The film is almost unrelievedly brutal and without the saving grace of unreality which makes Frankenstein's horrors a little comic." He aimed his barbs at individuals as well, like "the screen's latest leading man, John Trent, former transport pilot. Mr. Trent is square-jawed, rangy and solidly masculine. Eventually he may deteriorate and become an actor as well." He particularly disliked the work of Tyrone Power for 20th Century Fox and began his review of ''The Story of Alexander Graham Bell'' (1939), by saying that "If only because it has omitted Tyrone Power, 20th Century Fox's () must be considered one of that company's more sober and meritorious contributions to the historical drama." In response, Fox and the theater that presented the film reduced their advertising in the ''Times'' for months, costing the paper $50,000.〔 His review of Fox's ''The Grapes of Wrath'' led to an offer from Fox studio head Darryl F. Zanuck to work as a script editor for $400 a week, a very generous salary at the time.〔〔 By then he had written almost a thousand film reviews for the ''Times''. 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「Frank Nugent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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