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Name
  
Oscar Saul

Role
  
Writer


Plays
  
Revolt of the Beavers

Awards
  
Morgan Cox Award

Died
  
May 23, 1994, Los Angeles, California, United States

Nominations
  
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical

Movies
  
A Streetcar Named Desire, Major Dundee, Road House, The Naked Maja, Thunder on the Hill

Similar People
  
Charles K Feldman, Kim Hunter, Harry Stradling, Elia Kazan, Karl Malden

Oscar Saul (December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American writer. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

Selected filmography

As writer, unless otherwise specified.

  • Once Upon a Time (1944)
  • Road House (1948; story)
  • The Dark Past (1948; adaptation)
  • The Lady Gambles (1949; story)
  • Once More, My Darling (1949; additional dialogue)
  • Woman in Hiding (1950)
  • The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; adaptation of the play)
  • Thunder on the Hill (1952)
  • Affair in Trinidad (1952)
  • Let's Do It Again (1953; producer)
  • The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  • The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
  • The Naked Maja (1958; story)
  • The Second Time Around (1961)
  • Major Dundee (1965)
  • The Silencers (1966)
  • The Strange Affair (1968)
  • Man and Boy (1971)
  • Los Amigos (1972)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)

    • References

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