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Francis Edward Faragoh (born Ferenc Eduárd Faragó; October 16, 1898 – July 25, 1966), also known as Francis Edwards Faragoh, was a Hungarian-American screenwriter. He wrote for 20 films between 1929 and 1947. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 1931 for Best Writing, Adaptation for Little Caesar.
- Screenwriter
- July 25, 1966 (aged 67), Oakland, California, U.S.
- 1929–1947
Writer: Little Caesar. Francis Edward Faragoh (born Ferenc Eduárd Faragó) was a Hungarian-American screenwriter, active from 1929 to 1947. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, and migrated to the United States prior to World War I. He is primarily remembered for writing the screenplays for the pioneering gangster film "Little Caesar ...
- Writer
- October 16, 1895
- Francis Edward Faragoh
- July 25, 1966
Francis Edwards Faragoh, a writer of screenplays, died Sunday in a San Francisco hospital after a short illness following a tracheotomy. He was 71 years old.
Screenwriters Garrett Fort and Francis Edward Faragoh adapted Peggy Webling’s British stage version of Mary Shelley’s story but managed to crystallize the novel’s essential themes and emotions. From their economical narrative, director James Whale, new to horror, summoned an exquisitely pitched story to quicken the blood.
The screenplay was written by Francis Edward Faragoh. The film was considered a landmark in cinema as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor production throughout, opening the way for a growing number of color films to be made in Britain and the United States in the years leading up to World War II.
- June 13, 1935
- Roy Webb William Faversham
Mary Shelley, Peggy Webling, John L. Balderston, Francis Edward Faragoh, Garrett Fort. It takes a lot of people to bring a dead corpse to life.In Frankenstein, you've got Frankenstein himself, and then his assistant Fritz…but you've also got whoever donated that nasty brain, and all the people who used to be using the dead arms and legs and other bits.
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