McCall Jr., Major TV, Film Writer, Dies at 81". Secrets of an Actress (1938) (uncredited contributing writer). Ready, Willing, and Able (1936) (uncredited contributor).Snowed Under (1936) (uncredited contributor). In 1985, she also received the Guild's Edmund J. She was the first recipient of the Writers Guild's Valentine Davies Award in 1962. died of "complications of cancer" at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital, one day shy of her 82nd birthday. She was completely exonerated by the separate California Senate Factfinding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities of the General Research Committee in its report to the California Senate. On July 27, 1954, she had to defend herself in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee against reports that she was a communist sympathizer. McCall was one of many who clashed with the conservative Motion Picture Alliance. A number of her stories were published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Collier's, and The Saturday Evening Post from the 1930s to the 1950s. In the 1950s and 1960s, she branched out into television, being credited with four episodes of The Millionaire and one each of Sea Hunt, I Dream of Jeannie, and Gilligan's Island, among others. McCall wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten films in the series. She also adapted Wilson Collison's novel Dark Dame into Maisie (1939), launching the successful Maisie series. Among her screen credits are the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Craig's Wife (1936), The Fighting Sullivans (1944), and Mr. ĭuring her career, McCall wrote for Warner Bros., Columbia Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1942, the first year the contract was signed, McCall was elected the first woman president of the Guild. As a member of the negotiating committee, she worked to help secure the Guild's first contract with the studios, and as a member of the executive board, she helped secure an across-the-board wage increase from $40 to $125 per week for writers. McCall became an associate member of the Guild in 1934 and served her first of six terms on the executive board in 1935. and became involved with the Screen Writers Guild. In 1934, McCall landed a long-term contract with Warner Bros. They also assigned her to help with the screenplay of the film Scarlet Dawn (1932), based on her tragic novel of the Russian Revolution titled Revolt. signed her to a ten-week contract to write Street of Women (1932). The film rights were purchased by Warner Bros., but McCall did not get to write the screenplay for the film version, It's Tough to Be Famous (1932), starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In 1932, McCall published her first novel, The Goldfish Bowl, a satirical comedy loosely based on Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh. After graduating from Vassar College and Trinity College, Dublin, she began writing advertising copy and fiction. She wanted to be a writer from the time she was in first grade. was born on April 4, 1904, to a wealthy Irish American family in New York. She was a charter member and the first woman president of the Writers Guild of America (then known as the Screen Writers Guild), serving from 1942 to 19 to 1952. (Ap– April 3, 1986) was an American writer best known for her screenwriting.
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