| 词条 | Ranald MacDougall |
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| name = Ranald MacDougall | image = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1915|03|10}} | birth_place = Schenectady, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|12|12|1915|03|10}} | death_place = Pacific Palisades, California, U.S. | occupation = Screenwriter | years_active = | spouse = {{ubl|{{marriage|Lucille Brophy|1939|1957|end=divorced}}|{{marriage|Nanette Fabray|1957}}}} | children = 4 }} Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra. He also directed a number of films, including 1957's Man on Fire with Bing Crosby and 1959's The World, the Flesh and the Devil, both of which featured actress Inger Stevens. BiographyBorn in Schenectady, New York, MacDougall came from an impoverished working-class family. His father was a crane operator and union organizer, whose frequent strikes forced MacDougall to leave school before finishing the eighth grade to help support the family. He held a variety of odd jobs and during the Great Depression found work as an usher at Radio City Music Hall.[1] He saw greater potential across the street in Rockefeller Center, where he was hired as a page, working alongside Gregory Peck. As a page MacDougall had the opportunity to closely observe the radio industry, and in his spare time he wrote and submitted scripts to his boss under pseudonyms, and was finally hired as a staff writer for NBC Radio despite being underage at the time.[2] President, WGAMacDougall was President of the Writers Guild of America West from 1971 until 1973.[3] Personal lifeMacDougall was married to Lucille Brophy in 1939, by whom he had three children. Following their divorce, he married actress Nanette Fabray in 1957 by whom he had another son. He died of a heart attack in Pacific Palisades, California, at age 58.[4] References1. ^{{cite book |first=Alan K. |last=Rode |title=Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film |url={{Google books|mYI2DwAAQBAJ|page=377|plainurl=yes}} |year=2017 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |page=377 |isbn=978-0813173917}} 2. ^{{cite book |first=Ryan |last=Ellett |title=Radio Drama and Comedy Writers 1928-1962 |url={{Google books|PsE8DwAAQBAJ|page=130|plainurl=yes}} |year=2017 |publisher=McFarland & Company |page=130 |isbn=978-1476665931}} 3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/the-guild/about-us/history/past-presidents/ranald-macdougall |title=Ranald MacDougall Biography |website=Writers Guild of America West |access-date=February 23, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1987-11-12/news/vw-20529_1_hospital-food |title=U.S. Doctor Tours Soviet Hospital as a Heart Patient |first=Jeannine |last=Stein |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=November 12, 1987}} External links
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