Jacques Théry Explained

Jacques Théry
Birth Date:	6 April 1881
Birth Place:	Paris, France
Death Date:	29 September 1970 (aged 89)
Death Place:	Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Occupation:	Writer
Yearsactive:	1931–1946 (film)

Jacques Théry (1881–1970) was a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter.^[1] He worked in Hollywood during the 1940s. His collaborator Charles Brackett considered him to be an "outspoken, hard-line communist".^[2]

Selected filmography

• A Precocious Girl (1934)
• Unripe Fruit (1934)
• Farewell Waltz (1934)
• Song of Farewell (1934)
• Gold (1934)
• A Royal Divorce (1938)
• Arise, My Love (1940)
• Rhythm on the River (1940)
• Joan of Paris (1942)
• The Heavenly Body (1944)
• Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
• To Each His Own (1946)

Bibliography

• Brackett, Charles. "It's the Pictures That Got Small": Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age. Columbia University Press, 2014.
• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

Notes and References

1. Goble p.687
2. Brackett p.403