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John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts. ==Biography== Balderston began his career as a journalist in 1912 while still a student at Columbia University; he worked as the New York correspondent for the ''Philadelphia Record''. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, then was director of information in England and Ireland for the US Committee on Public Information. In the early 1920s he was the editor of ''Outlook'' magazine in London and then head of the Lond bureau for the ''New York World''.〔("Inventory of the John L. Balderston Papers, 1915-1950", *T-Mss-1954-002 Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts ) accessed 11 December 2012〕 Balderston achieved success as a playwright in 1926 with the London production of his play ''Berkeley Square'' which he had written with Jack Squire, the editor of ''The London Mercury''. In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane's stage adaptation of ''Dracula'' for its American production. This subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 film version, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films: in addition to ''Dracula'', he contributed to ''Frankenstein'', ''Bride of Frankenstein'', ''The Mummy'', and ''Dracula's Daughter''. Balderston spent much of his career adapting novels for the screen, including ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' in 1937 and 1944's ''Gaslight'', which earned him his second Academy Award nomination (the first was for 1935's ''The Lives of a Bengal Lancer''). He was also one of the team of writers who collaborated on the 1939 film adaptation of ''Gone with the Wind''. ''Berkeley Square'' later formed the basis of the musical ''On a Clear Day You Can See Forever''. His 1932 play ''Red Planet'' was filmed as ''Red Planet Mars'' in 1952. He died of a heart attack. 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「John L. Balderston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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