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Harry Segall (April 10, 1892 – November 25, 1975) was an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer.
Segall was born in Chicago.
Harry Segall's writing career spans from 1933 to 1959. Segall's plays, including Lost Horizons, appeared on Broadway in the mid-1930s. In 1933, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer brought Segall to Hollywood as a contract writer. In 1936, he moved to RKO Pictures, where he wrote and co-wrote screenplays for films such as The Outcasts of Poker Flat, based on a story by Bret Harte, and Blind Alibi, starring Richard Dix. During this time, Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios also produced his screenplays.
In 1941, Segall won an Academy Award for Best Original Story for the film Here Comes Mr. Jordan, starring Robert Montgomery and Evelyn Keyes, based on Segall's play Heaven Can Wait. The play was later revived under Wonderful Journey, but the revival lasted only nine performances.
A Technicolor sequel to Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Down to Earth, was released in 1947, starring Rita Hayworth and Larry Parks.
A 1978 film version of Heaven Can Wait starred Warren Beatty and Julie Christie. The play was then filmed again as Down to Earth, a 2001 vehicle for Chris Rock, with Segall credited as the writer of the original story.
With the advent of television, Segall turned his writing talents to this medium, writing plots for TV series and Playhouse 90. He retired from screenwriting in 1959 and died November 25, 1975, in Woodland Hills, California. Segall was interred in Roosevelt Cemetery in Gardena, California.
Most Popular Harry Segall Trailers
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15 May 1936
On her debut as an opera star, Marion Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance.
28 April 1942
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family.
15 January 1943
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer.
18 September 1936
A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote.
16 July 1937
A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.
20 May 1938
A Paris sculptor (Richard Dix) fakes blindness in Los Angeles to recover his blackmailed sister's love letters.
26 March 1942
The Two Yanks in Trinidad are gangsters Tim Reardon (Pat O'Brien) and Vince Barrows (Brian Donlevy), who split up over a disagreement and join the army, Tim to escape Vince's wrath and Vince to get his lunch-hooks on Tim.
13 May 1941
A rich playboy wants to marry a chorus girl, but he'll lose his fortune if his trustee doesn't approve of his sweetheart.
09 February 1979
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
05 November 1937
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
05 June 1946
A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.
08 August 1980
Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet.
03 September 1952
Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water cooler.
28 June 1978
Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident.
20 September 1946
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
07 August 1941
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body.
31 December 1937
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away.
11 May 1980
A small-time Chicago hood, now deceased, gets a second chance at life by striking a bargain with the Devil to inhabit and attempt to corrupt a totally honest politician.
14 January 1938
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
21 August 1947
Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.
22 October 1937
After a night on the town, Jonathan Blair wakes to find that Texan Valentine Ransome has escorted him home.
17 June 1938
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings.
15 December 1950
An angel takes on human form in order to persuade a theatrical couple to finally consummate their child that has been waiting to be born.
04 August 1939
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends.
16 April 1937
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
26 January 1940
Delia Jordan's father is murdered and some very valuable jewelry stolen. She hires The Lone Wolf.
21 May 1937
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
03 April 1934
Uncertain Lady is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Karl Freund.
