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Paul Jarrico Biography (1915-1997)

Born January 12, 1915, in Los Angeles, CA; died in an automobile accident, October 28, 1997, in Los Angeles, CA; son of Aaron (a lawyer) and Jenny (maidenname, Bernstein) Shapiro; married Lia Benedetti. Career: Screenwriter, executive story editor, producer, and playwright. University of California,Santa Barbara, Regents Lecturer, 1982, and visiting assistant professor of writing, 1987 and 1988. Military service: United States Merchant Marines, 1943; United States Navy, 1945-46. Member: Writers Guild of AmericaWest. Awards, Honors: Academy Award nomination, best original screenplay, 1942, for Tom, Dick and Harry; Grand Prize, Karlovy Vary Film Festival and Grand Prize, Academie du Cinema de Paris, both 1955, for Salt ofthe Earth; Lt. Robert Meltzer Award (awarded posthumously), Writers Guild of America, 1999.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Screenwriter, editor, producer, playwright

Birth Details

January 12, 1915

Los Angeles, California, United States

Death Details

October 28, 1997

Los Angeles, California, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Screenwriter, Except Where Indicated
• No Time to Marry, Columbia, 1938
• Story writer, Little Adventuress, Columbia, 1938
• Beauty for Asking, RKO Radio Pictures, 1939
• The Face Behind the Mask, Columbia, 1941
• Tom, Dick and Harry, RKO Radio Pictures, 1941
• Thousands Cheer (based on his story Private Miss Jones), Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, 1943
• Song of Russia, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1943
• Little Giant (also known as On the Carpet), Universal, 1946
• The Search, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1948
• Not Wanted (also known as Shame, Streets of Sin, andThe Streets of Sin), Film Classics, 1949
• The White Tower, RKO Radio Pictures, 1950
• The Las Vegas Story, RKO Radio Pictures, 1952
• Producer, Salt of the Earth, 1954
• The Girl Most Likely, Universal, 1957
• Five Branded Women, Paramount, 1960
• (As Peter Achilles) All Night Long, 1961
• Treasure of the Aztecs, 1965
• (As Peter Achilles) Wer kennt Jonny R.? (also known as Who Killed Johnny R. and Who Knows Jonny R.), Rosa Films, 1966
• Le rouble a deux faces (also known as The Day the Hot Line GotHot and Hot Line), SC Entertainment, 1968
• Sarajevsky atentat (also known as The Day That Shook the World and Atentat u Sarajevu), 1975
• Messenger of Death, 1988
• Television Work
• Executive story editor, Fortune Dane (series), ABC, 1986
• Executive story editor, Call to Glory (series), ABC, 1984-85
• Creative consultant, Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (special),1987
• Also worked on The Phil Silvers Show, CBS; The Defenders, CBS; and Seaway, syndicated.
• Stage Work
• Wrote Leonardo.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

• Entertainment Weekly, November 14, 1997, p. 14.
• Time, November 10, 1997, p. 33.*