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John Milton Bright (January 1, 1908 – September 14, 1989) was an American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
Sep 28, 1989 · John M. Bright, a one-time Chicago newspaper reporter who helped through such films as “The Public Enemy” in 1931 establish the gangster film as a powerful motion picture theme, has died in a...
What sort of work did he do? BRIGHT. He was a clerk for the American Radiator Company. My radicalism began with my father's abolitionism, which I was unaware of at the time, but which determined my attitude in respect to racism.
With the rise of power of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany, John Bright, anti-fascist beliefs became more mainstream. Bright was one of the founders of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League (HANL) in 1936.
The original author and screenwriter for James Cagney's The Public Enemy talks about the film.
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Oct 9, 2002 · Worms in the Winecup is the extraordinarily hard-hitting autobiography of John Bright, a screenplay writer who gained a major reputation with his first Hollywood script, Public Enemy, the classic gangster drama starring James Cagney.
Sep 18, 1989 · JOHN M. BRIGHT Screenwriter John M. Bright, 81, a founder of the Screen Writers Guild and a coauthor of the 1931 film "Public Enemy," which included the famous scene in which "gangster"...
