John Paxton helped adapt the screenplay for the controversial film The Wild One in 1953, starring Marlon Brando.
19 Facts About John Paxton
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John Paxton attended the University of Missouri where he studied journalism and was involved in college plays.
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John Paxton went to work at Stage magazine as an assistant and ended up doing reviews.
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John Paxton became friends with a fellow reviewer, Adrian Scott with whom Paxton would later work in Hollywood.
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When Stage magazine folded in 1943 John Paxton moved to Hollywood and did a variety of jobs, including ghost writing.
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In 1943 Scott became established at RKO as a producer and got John Paxton a job there was a writer.
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John Paxton gained critical praise for his adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely, Murder, My Sweet.
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John Paxton was reunited with Powell, Dmytryk and Scott on a film noir Cornered.
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John Paxton worked on another noir, Crack-Up with Pat O'Brien, then made a third film with Scott and Dmytryk, So Well Remembered.
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John Paxton took over from Scott as producer of an adaptation of Scott's play The Great Man's Whiskers but it was not made.
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John Paxton did some work on the script for Rope of Sand for Hal Wallis and worked on the documentary Of Men and Music.
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John Paxton went to 20th Century Fox where he wrote Fourteen Hours.
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John Paxton was hired by Stanley Kramer, who released through Columbia, to adapt the story for The Wild One.
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John Paxton went on to write and produce How to Murder a Rich Uncle for Warwick.
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Kramer hired John Paxton to adapt the Nevil Shute novel On the Beach as a film.
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John Paxton went into television writing "Aftermath" for General Electric Theater.
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John Paxton adapted a play by Adrian Scott for television, The Great Man's Whiskers.
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John Paxton worked in public relations for 20th Century Fox.
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John Paxton was an uncle of comic book writer Ed Brubaker.