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Mary C. McCall, Jr. (April 4, 1904, New York, New York – April 3, 1986, Los Angeles, California) was a writer best known for her screenwriting. She was the first woman president of the Writers Guild of America, serving from 1942–44 and 1951-52. Born in 1904, McCall was a graduate of Vassar College and Trinity College, Dublin. She began writing advertising copy and fiction after graduation. McCall got into the film industry when Warner Bros. hired her to help with the screenplay of the film Scarlet Dawn (1932), based on her novel Revolt. Among her screen credits are the 1935 film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring James Cagney as Puck, The Fighting Sullivans, and Mr. Belvedere Goes to College. She also wrote or co-wrote eight of the ten films in the Maisie series. In the late 1930s, she was one of the founders of the Screen Writers Guild. 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. A number of her stories were published in such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Collier's, and The Saturday Evening Post from the 1930s to the 1950s. McCall was one of many who clashed with the conservative Motion Picture Alliance. 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. 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. Mary C. McCall, Jr. died of "complications of cancer" at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital, one day shy of her 82nd birthday. She was survived by two sons and two daughters. She was the first recipient of the Writers Guild's Valentine Davies Award in 1962. In 1985, she also received the Guild's Edmund J. North Award.
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08 December 1934
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign.
15 April 1949
A middle-aged genius goes to college for the first time.
01 November 1957
Hughie Mack, a not so nice western singer, is discovered by Clover Doyle as the next movie cowboy hero.
01 June 1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon.
22 June 1939
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely.
19 January 1940
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors.
26 July 1940
Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.
04 June 1932
An architect has an affair with a woman who inspires him. Her brother is in love with the architect's daughter.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife.
12 November 1932
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
01 April 1945
A debutante, a serviceman's bride and a girl from a military family join the Women's Army Corps.
10 January 1941
Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid.
18 December 1941
Kathleen is a twelve-year-old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time.
01 October 1943
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin.
13 February 1942
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio.
22 September 1938
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson.
21 April 1937
A man goes to a loan shark to finance his family's vacation.
22 December 1934
Before Ruth Vincent, daughter of a state governor, and state attorney general Robert Sheldon can announce their marriage, the governor is accused of bribe-taking.
09 December 1938
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night.
01 September 1937
Jimmy Barnes arrives from Europe to be educated by his multi-millionaire uncle, Edward J. Barnes and in five years the extravagant escapes of Jimmy, now a lawyer, are the talk of San Francisco.
02 December 1949
Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids.
01 August 1941
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out.
01 August 1959
An European princess visiting America helps a record producer organize a big concert.
16 February 1935
A professional equestrian marries a polo player from a once-wealthy family, only to face the scorn of his snobbish relatives.
25 November 1952
After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.
20 November 1952
An Oklahoma National Guard unit, comprised mainly of Native Americans, is called up for duty at the start of World War II.
08 September 1934
A man meets the daughter of his lover and they begin to fall in love.
06 March 1937
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.
15 August 1944
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
26 February 1938
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.
09 October 1935
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play.
30 September 1942
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
03 February 1944
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are chronicled in this film based on a true story.
25 September 1936
Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult her relationship with domestic service and family members.
25 May 1944
Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.
09 March 1937
A girl with a reputation falls for a wealthy playboy.
