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James Edward Grant

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Occupation
  
Writer

Books
  
The Great John L.

Role
  
Short story writer

Name
  
James Grant

Years active
  
1935-1966



Born
  
July 2, 1905 (
1905-07-02
)
Chicago, Illinois

Died
  
February 19, 1966, Burbank, California, United States

Spouse
  
Josephine Foy Grant (m. ?–1966)

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay

Movies
  
Angel and the Badman, The Alamo, Hondo, McLintock!, The Comancheros

Similar People
  
Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot, William H Clothier, Michael Pate

Angel and the Badman


James Edward Grant (July 2, 1905 – February 19, 1966) was an American short story writer and screenwriter who contributed to more than fifty films between 1935 and 1971. He collaborated with John Wayne on twelve projects, starting with Angel and the Badman (which he also directed) in 1947 through Circus World in 1964. Support Your Local Gunfighter was released in 1971, five years after his death.

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Biography

Born in Chicago, Grant was originally a journalist in his home town. He wrote a novel Whipsaw which became a best seller in 1935; it was turned into a movie with Myrna Loy and launched his screenwriting career.

Grant wrote numerous short stories that were published in Argosy, The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty, among others.

He also wrote a play Plan M.

John Wayne called Grant "a dear friend"

He had a great talent as a writer. Jimmy was a short story writer. Now a short story writer doesn't have all the voluminous language that dulls a scene. He had to make the dialogue give character to a person and progress the story, and that's practically what Ford as a director did all the time. Ford cut through the nuance and all that crap and got down to the basic story. He put the nuance in with the camera. Jimmy was a writer of the same type... I knew Jimmy Grant for twenty years. It's very handy to have somebody like that. You know with writers, you don't have enough contact with them.

Grant died from cancer in Burbank, California.

He owned a cattle ranch in Winton in Merced County from the 1940s until his death.

Awards

Grant won the Bronze Wrangler, an annual award presented by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, twice, for The Alamo in 1961 and The Comancheros the following year. He and William Bowers were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Sheepman in 1959.

References

James Edward Grant Wikipedia