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Michael Seymour Blankfort [1] (December 10, 1907 – July 13, 1982) [2] was an American screenwriter, writer of books and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award -nominated screenplay of Broken Arrow (1950). He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles. [2]
- Screenwriter, Writer, Playwright
- 1st) Laurette Spingarn, 2nd) Dorothy Stiles
Nov 25, 2018 · Sunday night, July 18, 1982. The funeral. Michael Blankfort died. He had finished his 14th book and was carrying it under his arm at the accident. 74 years. Twelve highly acclaimed novels; one…
From Prohibition to the dawn of disco, Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club was the world's most famous nightspot. Celebrated by newspaper columnist and radio commentator Walter Winchell, the Stork Club drew the best and brightest of American culture-makers. Celebrities from Joe Dimaggio and Marilyn Monroe, to Frank Sinatra and the Duke and Duchess ...
Jun 30, 1978 · Mr. Blankfort began writing short stories as a student at DeWitt Clinton High School in the 1920's. In the 30's, as a young radical, he directed and wrote plays, including “The Crime,” which ...
Ceplair said--and Dorothy Blankfort confirmed--that Blankfort wrote a letter to the Writers Guild acknowledging Maltz’s authorship of “Broken Arrow” but decided to wait a year before mailing it.
Jul 16, 1982 · Born in New York City in 1907, Mr. Blankfort graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and moved to Los Angeles in 1937, where he became a screenwriter at various times with Columbia Studios ...
Michael Blankfort. Screenwriter and novelist Michael Blankfort’s credits include The Caine Mutiny (1954), Untamed (1955), Tribute to a Bad Man (1956), The Plainsman (1966), and A Fire in the Sky (1978). He fronted for blacklisted writer Albert Maltz, taking screen credit for Broken Arrow (1950), which won a Screen Writers Guild award. In 1991 ...
