William James Hurlbut
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William James Hurlbut (1878 or July 13, 1883 – May 4, 1957)[1] was a playwright, screenwriter, and artist.[2][3]
The grandson of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut, his father served as mayor of Belvidere, Illinois and invented an "instantaneous camera".[citation needed] William Hurlbut was involved in local theater productions and graduated from Belvidere High School.[4] He traveled with his family to New York with a stop in Peru while the Panama Canal was being constructed.[4] In 1896 he was listed as a student at Washington University in St. Louis's School of Fine Arts.[5]
His plays had female leads.[4] One of his plays was about tenement life. Another was about a girlfriend from Europe coming to a town in America.[4]
He was sued for making alterations and subletting a New York City apartment.[6] He never married and had no children.[4]
Theater
- The Fighting Hope (1908),[7] produced by David Belasco
- The Writing on the Wall (1909), produced by Olga Nethersole[8][9]
- New York (1910)[4]
- The Strange Woman (1914)[10]
- Saturday to Monday (1917)[11]
- Bride of the Lamb (1926)[12]
- Engaged; A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts (1926)[13]
- On the Stars (1931)[14]
- Recessional (1931)[15]
- Lover for Two (1936), co-wrote[16]
- Trimmed in Scarlet
- Half a Husband; A Comedy in Four Acts[17]
- "Very Rich,";A Group Portrait Comedy[18]
- Lady Bridget
- A Lincolnshire Idyll[1]
- Lillies of the Field
Films
- The Fighting Hope (1915) based on his play
- The Dawn of Freedom (1916)
- The Writing in the Wall (1916)[19]
- The Strange Woman (1918)[20]
- Romance and Arabella (1919)
- Body and Soul (1920)
- Lillies on the Field (1924), based on his play
- The French Lady (1924)
- Lillies of the Field (1930), based on his play
- Good Sport (1931), screenplay
- Imitation of Life (1934 film) (1934), screenplay based on 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst
- Bride of Frankenstein (1935), co-wrote screenplay
- Adam Had Four Sons (1940), co-wrote screenplay adaptation of Charles Bonner's novel Legacy[21]