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John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
John Monk Saunders was born on 22 November 1895 in Hinckley, Minnesota, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Dawn Patrol (1930), Wings (1927) and Devil Dogs of the Air (1935). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes). He died on 11 March 1940 in Ft. Myers, Florida, USA.
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The Dawn Patrol won the Academy Award for Best Story for John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S. Air Service. It was subsequently remade in 1938 with the same title , and the original was then renamed Flight Commander and released later as part of the Warner ...
In Howard Hawks: Early life and work. …based on a story by John Monk Saunders, whose work had also formed the basis for William Wellman’s Wings (1927), and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., as pilots stationed in France during World War I.
Sep 22, 2008 · By the late 1920s and early 1930s, the literary scene was riddled with imitators of the infectious and seemingly effortless Hemingway style. These included John Monk Saunders, a Hollywood screenwriter and WWI veteran who published the novel Single Lady in 1931.
John Monk Saunders is known as an Story, Writer, Screenplay, Dialogue, Director, Theatre Play, and Novel. Some of his work includes Wings, The Docks of New York, The Dawn Patrol, The Dawn Patrol, The Eagle and the Hawk, The Last Flight, A Yank at Oxford, and She Goes to War.
SAUNDERS, John Monk. Writer. Nationality: American. Born: Hunckley, Minnesota, 22 November 1897. Education: Attended the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, B.A.; Oxford University (Rhodes scholar), M.A. 1923. Military Service: 1914–18—served in the United States Flying Corps.
