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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 .
John L. Balderston was born in Philadelphia and began his newspaper career in 1912 while still a student at Columbia University as the New York correspondent for The Philadelphia Record. He was a war correspondent for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate during World War I and then director of information in England and Ireland for the U.S ...
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.
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Biography. Awards. Trivia. IMDbPro. All topics. John L. Balderston (1889-1954) Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. John L. Balderston was an American playwright, screenwriter, and journalist from Philadelphia. He specialized in creating horror and fantasy stories.
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The script for this hugely successful film version of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel was conceived and written by Garrett Fort, who based his script on a play written by a relatively unknown American journalist named John L. Balderston along with Dublin- born playwright Hamilton Deane.
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Dracula is a stage play written by the Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane in 1924, then revised by the American writer John L. Balderston in 1927. It was the first authorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.
Berkeley Square is a play in three acts by John L. Balderston (in collaboration with J.C. Squire) which tells the story of a young American who is transported back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meets his ancestors. [1] The plot is loosely based on Henry James ' posthumous 1917 novel The Sense of the Past.
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