Kubec Glasmon | |
Birth Date: | 12 August 1897 |
Birth Place: | Poland |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, US |
Yearsactive: | 1931–42 (last work released after his death) |
Kubec Glasmon (August 12, 1897 – March 13, 1938) was an American screenwriter from Poland, who was nominated for the now defunct category of Best Story at the 4th Academy Awards. He was nominated for Best Story with John Bright for The Public Enemy.[1] The film was based on the duo's then-unpublished novel Beer and Blood, which was published after the film's release (as The Public Enemy) by Grosset & Dunlap in 1931.
Kubec was a former pharmacist in Chicago before he became a screenwriter. He wrote crime stories with John Bright. He was married to film actress Joan Blair, born Lilian Wilck.[2]
He died at age 40 of a heart attack.[3]