Jules Furthman
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Jules Furthman (March 5, 1888 - September 22, 1966) was a magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, during World War II he wrote under the name "Stephen Fox". Furthman wrote screenplays for a number of popular films including Shanghai Express (1932), Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946) and Nightmare Alley (1947).
He was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Mutiny on the Bounty.
Jules Furthman died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1966 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. His remains were brought home and interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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