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Albert Maltz

Date of Birth 28-October-1908
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as John Sherry, John B. Sherry
Profession Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter
Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the US Communist Party. They and many other US entertainment industry figures were subsequently blacklisted, which denied Maltz employment in the industry for many years. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Maltz was educated at Columbia University and the Yale School of Drama. During the 1930s, Maltz worked as a playwright for the Theater Union, which was "an organization of theater artists and political activists who mounted professional productions of plays oriented towards working people and their middle-class allies." In 1932, his play Merry Go Round was adapted for a film. At the Theater Union he met Margaret Larkin, whom he married in 1937. He won the 1938 O. Henry Award for "The Happiest Man on Earth", a short story published in Harper's Magazine. In 1944 he published the novel The Cross and the Arrow, about which Jerry Belcher noted that it was "a best seller chronicling German resistance to the Nazi regime. It was distributed in a special Armed Forces edition to more than 150,000 American fighting men during World War II." In 1970 he published a collection of his short stories Afternoon in the Jungle.

Awards by Albert Maltz

Check all the awards nominated and won by Albert Maltz.

1950


Nominations 1950 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay Broken Arrow
Based upon the research made by, and the board motion of, the Writers Guild of America West, the Academy, on July 3, 1991, decided to restore Albert Maltz to the screenplay credit on the 1950 film Broken Arrow. Michael Blankfort had fronted for him on the screenplay and consequently was named in the screenplay nomination. Mr. Blankfort's name was removed from the nomination.
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Broken Arrow
Based upon the research made by, and the board motion of, the Writers Guild of America West, the Academy, on July 3, 1991, decided to restore Albert Maltz to the screenplay credit on the 1950 film Broken Arrow. Michael Blankfort had fronted for him on the screenplay and consequently was named in the screenplay nomination. Mr. Blankfort's name was removed from the nomination.

1949


Nominations 1949 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama The Naked City

1945


Academy Honorary Award
Honored for : The House I Live In, The House I Live In
(tolerance short subject; produced by Frank Ross and Mervyn LeRoy; directed by Mervyn LeRoy; screenplay by Albert Maltz; song The House I Live In, music by Earl Robinson, lyrics by Lewis Allan; starring Frank Sinatra; released by RKO Radio)

Nominations 1945 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Academy Award for Best Screenplay Pride of the Marines


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