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Dwight Oliver Taylor (January 1, 1903, New York City, New York β December 31, 1986, Woodland Hills, California) was an American author, playwright, and film/television screenwriter.
Dwight Taylor was the son of actress Laurette Taylor and her husband, Charles A. Taylor. Dwight Taylor 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.
Filmography
all 32
Movies 31
Writer 30
TV Shows 1
Screenplay 1
The Cape Town Affair (1967)
Batman (1966)
Interlude (1957)
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
Special Delivery (1955)
Vicki (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
We're Not Married! (1952)
Something to Live For (1952)
The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
Conflict (1945)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Nightmare (1942)
I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Rhythm on the River (1940)
The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Gangway (1937)
Head Over Heels (1937)
Follow the Fleet (1936)
Top Hat (1935)
Paris in Spring (1935)
Lady by Choice (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Long Lost Father (1934)
If I Were Free (1933)
Today We Live (1933)
Are You Listening? (1932)
Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
Numbered Men (1930)
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GenderMale
Birthday1903-01-01
Deathday1986-12-31 (83 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
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FatherCharles A. Taylor
MotherLaurette Taylor
SiblingsMarguerite Courtney
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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