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John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889, in Philadelphia – March 8, 1954, in Los Angeles) was an American playwright and screenwriter best remembered for his horror and fantasy scripts. He wrote the 1926 play Berkeley Square and the 1927 American adaptation of the 1924 play Dracula .
The John L. Balderston papers are arranged in two series: Correspondence. 1915-1949. 6 folders. This series of professional correspondence includes both incoming and outgoing letters and has two folders arranged by play title: Berkeley Square and Dracula, rather than by author.
Inventory of the John L. Balderston Papers, 1915-1950. The Billy Rose Theatre Division. New York Public Library. 40 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023-7498 (212) 870-1639. Encoding of the finding aid sponsored by grant funding from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. ©2000 The New York Public Library.
John L. and Anna E. Balderston had two sons, Robert W. (1882-1940) and C. Canby Balderston (1897-1979). Robert was a farmer and active in the National Milk Association. C. Canby Balderston attended Westtown School and earned his bachelor, masters and doctorate at University of Pennsylvania where he served on the faculty for more than 30 years.
Aug 30, 2022 · The initial screenplay writer was John L. Balderston, he was joined by John Van Druten, who wrote 1937's, "Night Must Fall", with Robert Montgomery as a psychopathic murderer. The third writer was Walter Reisch, the Austrian-Hungarian writer wrote several films for Greta Garbo and in 1959, Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth".
Balderston, John L. Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Theatre. (1889-1954) US playwright and screenwriter who wrote, always in collaboration, some dramas of genre interest. Berkeley Square (performed 1926; 1928 chap) with J C Squire is a Timeslip fantasy based on The Sense of the Past ( 1917) by Henry James; Red Planet ( 1933 ...
John L. Balderston. John L. Balderston began his career as a journalist in 1912 while still a student at Columbia University; he worked as the New York correspondent for the Philadelphia Record. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, then was director of information in England and Ireland ...
