12 Facts About Nunnally Johnson

Nunnally Hunter Johnson was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright.

Nunnally Johnson produced more than half of the films he wrote scripts for and directed eight of those movies.

Nunnally Johnson wrote the 1943 Broadway play The World's Full of Girls.

Nunnally Johnson was born on December 5,1897, in Columbus, Georgia, the elder of two sons born to Johnnie Pearl and James Nunnally Johnson.

Nunnally Johnson's mother founded what later became the PTA in Columbus, and was the first woman to serve on the Muscogee County Board of Education.

Nunnally Johnson began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the New York Evening Post and the New York Herald Tribune.

Nunnally Johnson wrote short stories, and a collection of these stories, titled There Ought to Be a Law, was published in 1930.

Nunnally Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism in 1932.

Nunnally Johnson began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz.

Nunnally Johnson directed several films in the 1950s, including two starring Gregory Peck.

In 1964, Nunnally Johnson adapted his daughter Nora Nunnally Johnson's novel, The World of Henry Orient, into a film of the same title, starring Peter Sellers.

Nunnally Johnson died of pneumonia in Hollywood in 1977 and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.