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John Monk Saunders (November 22, 1897 – March 11, 1940) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director. Early life and career [ edit ] Born in Hinckley, Minnesota , to Robert C. Saunders and Nannie Monk Saunders, his family (6 children) moved to Seattle, Washington in 1907 where his father served as US Attorney.
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- March 11, 1940 (aged 42), Fort Myers, Florida, U.S.
- November 22, 1897, Hinckley, Minnesota, U.S.
John Monk Saunders. Writer: The Dawn Patrol. 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).
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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 The Eagle and the Hawk (1933). He was married to Fay Wray and Avis Bissell (Hughes).
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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 ...
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Other articles where John Monk Saunders is discussed: 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. The aerial footage (much of it shot from a plane piloted by Hawks)…
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.
Singling Out John Monk Saunders: Hemingway’s Thoughts on an Imitator. 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.
