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Waldo Miller Salt (October 18, 1914 – March 7, 1987) was an American screenwriter who won Academy Awards for both Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.
Dec 11, 2006 · Divorced, and sick with pneumonia and despair, Salt was living in a cheap New York hotel trying to write television scripts. “I ended up at fifty, over-the-hill, thinking I had no future ...
Jun 30, 2022 · Salt belonged to the Communist Party for 18 years — daughter (and actress) Jennifer Salt believes he was driven in part by a longing for family, as well as a moralistic bent to make a better world. But he lost faith after a famous 1956 Khrushchev speech that revealed atrocities committed by Stalin.
Mar 18, 2021 · March 18, 20217:02 AM ET. By. Michael Schaub. Enlarge this image. United Artists via Getty Images. More than 50 years after it was released, shocking moviegoers across the U.S., Midnight Cowboy has...
May 1, 1992 · Was the screenwriter Waldo Salt, who died in 1987, an American master? He must have been, because he is the subject of tonight's offering from "American Masters," at 9 on Channel 13.
Actor. Additional Crew. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Waldo Salt was one of the many people blacklisted in Hollywood during the Red Scare, but unlike others, Salt recovered triumphantly. He wrote his first scripts in the late 1930s (MGM contract writer, 1936-42) and also served as a civilian consultant to the Office of War Information from 1942 ...
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey is a 1990 American documentary film directed by Eugene Corr. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film was screened at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival and is a part of the PBS American Masters series of documentary films.
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