Mildred Cram
American writer
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Mildred Cram (October 17, 1889 – April 4, 1985) was an American writer.[1]
Mildred Cram | |
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| Born | October 17, 1889 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | April 4, 1985 (aged 95) |
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Career
Her short story "Stranger Things" was included in the O. Henry Award story collection for 1921.[2] A number of her stories and novels were made into films. She was nominated, along with Leo McCarey, for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story, for Love Affair (1939).[3]
Gerald Clarke wrote in his biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland that Cram was Tyrone Power's favorite author.[4] Power introduced Garland to Cram's novella Forever, which Garland could eventually "quote word for word".[4] Over the years, several attempts were made to adapt the story, but without success. In the 1930s, Cram sold it for $15,000.[5] It changed hands a few more times. In 1942, movie columnist Louella Parsons announced that Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor had been cast for a film adaptation of the story.[6] In 1955, it was reported that Bill Bacher, co-producer of the Broadway play Seventh Heaven,[7] had bought the play rights and would be making it into a Broadway musical.[5]
Family
Painter Allan Gilbert Cram is her brother.[8]
Works
- All the King's Horses, book-length novel, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1936
- Forever, novella (60 pages), Alfred A. Knopf, April 22, 1938; 13th printing, November 1954[9][10]
- The Promise[10]
- Old Seaport Towns of the South ; Drawings by Allan Gilbert Cram. 1917 [10]
- Lotus Salad ; Illustrated by Frederick Coffay Yohn. 1920 [10]
- Stranger Things / by Mildred Cram 1923 [10]
- Kingdom of Innocents[10]
- Born in Time: A Re-telling of the Traditional Christmas Nativity Story[10]
- Scotch Valley[10]
- The Tide[10]
- Sir[10]
Filmography
- Subway Sadie (1926) (story "Sadie of the Desert")
- Behind the Make-Up (1930) (story "The Feeder")
- This Modern Age (1931) (story "Girls Together")
- Amateur Daddy (1932) (novel Scotch Valley)
- Sinners in the Sun (1932) (story "The Beachcomber")
- Faithless (1932) (novel Tinfoil)
- Maquillage (1932), also known as Make Up (novella The Feeder)
- Stars Over Broadway (1935) (story "Thin Air")
- Mariners of the Sky/Navy Born (1936) (story)
- Wings Over Honolulu (1937) (story)
- Love Affair (1939) (story)
- Beyond Tomorrow (1940), also known as Beyond Christmas (story)
- An Affair to Remember (1957) (story)
- Love Affair (1994) (story)
