Grover Jones
| Grover Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 15, 1893 Rosedale, Indiana, USA |
| Died |
September 24, 1940 (aged 46) Hollywood, California, USA |
| Years active | 1920-1946 |
Grover Jones (November 15, 1893 – September 24, 1940) was an American screenwriter - often teamed with William Slavens McNutt - and film director. He wrote more than 104 films between 1920 and his death. He also was a film journal publisher and prolific short story writer. Jones was born in Rosedale, Indiana, grew up in West Terre Haute, Indiana, and died in Hollywood, California.
He was the father of American polo pioneer Sue Sally Hale.[1]
Selected filmography
- The Iron Mule (1925)
- Curses! (1925)
- Easy Going Gordon (1925)
- Wife Tamers (1926)
- Say It with Babies (1926)
- Take Me Home (1928)
- What a Night! (1928)
- The Virginian (1929)
- Dangerous Paradise (1930)
- The Light of Western Stars (1930)
- Tom Sawyer (1930)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- Limehouse Blues (1934)
- Behold My Wife (1934)
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
- The Milky Way (1936)
- Captain Fury (1939)
- Dark Command (1940)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
- Captain Caution (1940)
Partial bibliography
- Derelict (A novelization; Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation, N.Y. (1930))
- Jones': A Movie Magazine By Movie Makers (Vol. I, Number 1 was August 1937; The (Grover) Jones Press, Pacific Palisades (1937))
- There Were Giants, a Story of Blood and Steel (A novel with William Slavens McNutt; M.S. Mill, N.Y. (1939))
References
- ↑ "Sue Sally Hale". SShale. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
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