| Maurice A. Hanline | |
| Birth Date: | June 6, 1895 |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Death Date: | September 1964 |
| Education: | Baltimore City College |
| Spouse: | Patricia O'Brien |
Maurice A. Hanline (June 6, 1895 - September 1964)[1] was an American playwright, poet, novelist and screenwriter. He worked as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for more than three decades.
Hanline was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland.[2] He graduated from Baltimore City College.[3]
Hanline staged his own play, The Woman of Samaria, in Baltimore in 1921.[4] He worked in publishing in New York City for Horace Liveright in the 1920s, and he became a published poet.[3] In 1930, he began working as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Los Angeles.[3] [2] He published his first novel, Years of Indiscretion in 1935.[3] He worked for MGM until his death.[2]
Movies he worked on include Lottery Lover (1935), Four Wives (1939), and Steel Against the Sky (1941).
Hanline married Patricia O'Brien.[2] He died in 1964, at age 69.[2] [3]