Nunnally Johnson

Trivia

• Johnson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Directors Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
• He soon began producing films as well and cofounded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz. Johnson also directed several films in the 1950s.
• Johnson quickly found work as a scriptwriter and was hired fulltime as a writer by 20th Century-Fox in 1935.
• Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism articles in 1932. When this request was denied, he decided to relocate to Hollywood and work directly in the film industry.
• Johnson's first connection with film work was the sale of the screen rights to one of his stories in 1927.
• He also wrote short stories and a collection of these, There Ought To Be a Law, was published in 1930.
• He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune.
• Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed films.

Quotes

• I don't think Betty would want an Oscar on her mantelpiece. She has every Tom, Dick and Harry at her feet.
• Sure, Mank was witty, but his wit took a much more elaborate form than wisecracks. He could improvise in a way that just held you spellbound.
• "A fan came over during diner one time and Bogey told him to beat it. When the guy got back to his table I heard his companion say, quite happily, "See, I told ya he'd insult you."
• "Women who have been sewn into their clothes should never drink to excess.
• "This is the only place I ever heard of where the citizens practice stabbing themselves in the back in their spare time just by way of gymnasium work-outs."
• "Movie actors wear dark glasses to funerals to conceal the fact that their eyes are not red from weeping."