1. Edward Bartlett Cormack was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, and producer best known for his 1927 Broadway play The Racket, and for working with Howard Hughes and Cecil B DeMille on several films.
12 Facts About Bartlett Cormack
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Bartlett Cormack graduated from University High School, and was accepted at the University of Chicago.
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Bartlett Cormack became a member of Maurice Browne's Little Theatre Company in Chicago, but his duties as a general handyman were so demanding he was dismissed from the university as a result of poor class attendance.
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Bartlett Cormack left the Chicago Evening Journal for the Chicago American, working there five years before applying for reinstatement at the University of Chicago.
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Bartlett Cormack wrote two more college plays and became engaged, graduating two years later with honors and as a Phi Beta Kappa.
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Bartlett Cormack returned to The American, where he wrote features and dramatic criticism.
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Bartlett Cormack shared writing credit for the play Tampico with Joseph Hergesheimer, who wrote the novel of the same name in 1926.
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Bartlett Cormack later wrote Hey Diddle Diddle, a comedy whose setting was a duplex apartment in Hollywood.
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Bartlett Cormack wanted to replace him, but the producer, Anne Nichols, said the fault lay with the character and insisted that the part needed to be reshaped and rewritten.
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Bartlett Cormack shared screenwriting credit with Rex Beach for the 1930 film version of The Spoilers.
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Briefly relocating to England in 1938, Bartlett Cormack helped write the screenplays for Sidewalks of London, and the Charles Laughton film Vessel of Wrath.
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Bartlett Cormack did some work on the script for the 1941 DeMille film Northwest Mounted Police, but did not receive credit.