Writing
Douglas Morrow
Born — Died
1913-09-13 — 1994-09-09
Place of birth
Oswego, New York, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
8 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Morrow (13 September 1913 - 9 September 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Morrow died of an aneurysm in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Morrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
5.9After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Bathing Beauty
1944
6.8A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
6.5The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951
5.8An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Along Came Jones
1945
5.6A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Lady Luck
1946
6.6Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
The Stratton Story
1949
Film credits
1940s · 4 titles
5.9After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.
Bathing Beauty
1944
5.8An easy-going cowboy is mistaken by the townsfolk for a notorious gunman. The cowboy decides it would be best to leave town, until he meets the gunman's girlfriend.
Along Came Jones
1945
5.6A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Lady Luck
1946
6.6A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Maisie Goes to Reno
1944
Behind the camera
6.8A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1956
6.5The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951
6.6Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
The Stratton Story
1949
7.0When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Maurie
1973
