Richard L. Breen
Actor, Screenwriter, and Director
The Mating Season (film)...Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Mitchell Leisen and produced by Charles Brackett from a screenplay by Charles Brackett, Richard Breen and Walter Reisch, based on the play Maggie by Caesar Dunn. The ensemble cast stars Gene Tierney, John... In this article: The Mating Season, Miriam Hopkins, Thelma Ritter, Charles Brackett, John Lund, and Gene Tierney |
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Wikipedia | October 27, 2009
Pete Kelly's Blues (radio series)
...at 8pm(et) from July 4 through September 19, 1951. The series starred Jack Webb as Pete Kelly and was created by writer Richard L. Breen, who had previously worked with Webb on Pat Novak for Hire; James Moser and Jo Eisinger wrote most of...
In this article: Jack Webb, Pete Kelly's Blues, Dick Cathcart, Matty Matlock, and Jo Eisinger
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
...of the Sierra Madre '' - John Huston from the novel by B. Traven A Foreign Affair - Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Richard L. Breen from the story by David Shaw 1949 A Letter to Three Wives - Joseph Mankiewicz from the novel...
In this article: Academy Awards, Pierre Boulle, Michael Wilson, Billy Wilder, Mario Puzo, Charles Brackett, Robert Riskin, Francis Ford Coppola, and Carl Foreman
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
The FBI Story
The FBI Story is a 1959 American drama film produced and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The screenplay by Richard L. Breen and John Twist is based on a book by Don Whitehead. John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart ) opens the film...
In this article: The FBI Story, Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, Baby Face Nelson, Mervyn LeRoy, and John Dillinger
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Richard L. Breen
...and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963). In 1957, he directed one film Stopover Tokyo, and then returned to screenwriting. He was president of the Screenwriters' Guild from 1952 to 1953. He was also credited as "Richard Breen" and "Robert Breen".
In this article: Oscar, World War II, US Navy, Captain Newman, M.D., Titanic, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, and Hollywood
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
A Foreign Affair
...Affair is a 1948 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder. The screenplay by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and Richard L. Breen is based on a story by David Shaw adapted by Robert Harari. In 1947, a United States congressional...
In this article: Billy Wilder, John Pringle, Marlene Dietrich, A Foreign Affair, Charles Brackett, Jean Arthur, and Berlin
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Wikipedia | September 22, 2009
Mary, Mary (play)
...income taxes, marriage, alimony, divorce, remarriage, extra-marital affairs, weight-loss programs, exercise, and sex. Richard L. Breen adapted Kerr's play for a 1963 film version directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Nelson, Rennie, and Sherman...
In this article: Mary, Mary, Oscar, Jean Kerr, Michael Rennie, and Barbara Bel Geddes
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Wikipedia | August 26, 2009
O. Henry's Full House
...by Lamar Trotti, it stars Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe and David Wayne. Directed by Henry Hathaway, from a screenplay by Richard L. Breen, it stars Dale Robertson and Richard Widmark. Directed by Jean Negulesco, from a screenplay by...
In this article: O. Henry's Full House, Marilyn Monroe, Alfred Newman, Ben Roberts, Ben Hecht, Lamar Trotti, Ivan Goff, O. Henry, Andre Hakim, and 20th Century Fox
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Wikipedia | May 22, 2009
Appointment with Danger
...mail stamps. But he is fortunate in having a vehicle, which is basically a cops-and-robbers tale, tautly written by scenarists Richard Breen and Warren Duff, who also have injected humor in the modern idiom into their dialogue. And he is...
In this article: Alan Ladd, Appointment with Danger, Phyllis Calvert, Warren Duff, Paul Stewart, Bosley Crowther, and United States Postal Inspection Service
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Wikipedia | November 29, 2008
Johnny Modero, Pier 23
...Burke, Bob Holden, Herb Butterfield, Irvin Lee and Herb Rawlinson. Harry Zimmerman provided the background music. Nat Wolff directed the scripts by Richard Breen, Herb Margolis and Lou Markheim. The program's announcer was Tony LaFranco.
In this article: Nat Wolff, Richard Breen, Gale Gordon, William Conrad, and Jack Webb
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Wikipedia | November 29, 2008
Pat Novak for Hire
...ABC . The regional version originally starred Jack Webb in the title role, with scripts by his roommate Richard L. Breen. When Webb and Breen moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles to work on an extremely similar nationwide series, ''Johnny...
In this article: Jack Webb and San Francisco, California
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Richard L. Breen (June 26,1918 - February 1, 1967) was a Hollywood screenwriter and director. He began as a freelance radio writer. After a stint in the US Navy during World War II, he began writing for films and worked alone and in collaboration with such distinguished writers as Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett.
He won an Oscar for his work on the screenplay to Titanic (1953), and was nominated for A Foreign Affair (1948) and Captain Newman, M.D. (1963).
In 1957, he directed one film Stopover Tokyo, and then returned to screenwriting. He was president of the Screenwriters' Guild from 1952 to 1953.
He was also credited as "Richard Breen" and "Robert Breen".
- Birth Date:
- June 26, 1918
- Birthplace:
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Death Date:
- February 01, 1967
- Place of Death:
- Los Angeles County, California, USA
- Occupation:
- Writer, Screenwriter, Director
- Years Active:
- 1948-1967
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