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词条 Humphrey Pearson
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  1. Life and career

  2. References

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| name = Humphrey Pearson
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|11|30}}
| birth_place = Columbus, Ohio, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|1937|2|24|1893|11|30}}
| death_place = Hollywood, California, United States
| birthname =
| occupation = Screenwriter, playwright
| spouse = Rive King Pearson
| yearsactive = 1929–36
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Humphrey Pearson (November 30, 1893 – February 24, 1937) was an American screenwriter and playwright of the 1930s. During his brief career, he penned a Broadway play and 22 screenplays. His promising career was cut short when he was found shot to death, under mysterious circumstances in his home, in early 1937.

Life and career

Pearson was born on November 30, 1893 in Columbus, Ohio. He would break into the film industry in 1929, writing the dialogue and titles to Mervyn LeRoy's Hot Stuff, which was one of the few films Hollywood produced which was a silent film with sound sequences.[1] Pearson's play, Shoestring, would serve as the basis for Robert Lord's screenplay On With the Show!, which in 1929 became the first color sound film.[2][3][4]

In the next two years Pearson would pen another seven screenplays, including Bride of the Regiment, starring Vivienne Segal and Allan Prior, and featuring Walter Pidgeon and Myrna Loy;[5] Michael Curtiz' Bright Lights (1930);[6] Going Wild, starring Joe E. Brown, and Walter Pidgeon;[7] and another Mervyn Leroy film, Top Speed, again starring Joe E. Brown.[8] 1930 would also see Pearson's play, They Never Grow Up, be produced. It would be the only play written by Pearson produced on Broadway, having a short run at the Theatre Masque, lasting for 24 performances. Its cast included Florence Auer, and Otto Kruger.[9]

Between 1931 and 1936 Pearson would be responsible for another fourteen screenplays.[10] These would include Consolation Marriage, with Irene Dunne and Pat O'Brien; George Archainbaud's The Lost Squadron, starring Richard Dix, Mary Astor, Robert Armstrong, Joel McCrea, and Erich von Stroheim;[11] Westward Passage, starring Ann Harding, Laurence Olivier, and ZaSu Pitts;[12] Face in the Sky, starring Spencer Tracy;[13] 1935's Ruggles of Red Gap, which stars Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Charlie Ruggles, ZaSu Pitts, Roland Young, and Leila Hyams, which The Film Daily rated one of the ten best films of 1935;[14][15] and Red Salute, starring Barbara Stanwyck.[16]

Pearson's last screenplay was 1936's Palm Springs.[17] In February 1937, after a night of drinking, Pearson was killed by a gunshot wound to the chest at his home in Palm Springs, California. His death occurred under mysterious circumstances. Initially, it was not clear whether the death was a suicide or at the hand of his wife, Rive King Pearson, but eventually the Palm Springs chief of police ruled it accidental.[18][19][20]

References

1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9828 | title=Hot Stuff: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419020056/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9828 | archivedate= April 19, 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/O/OnWithTheShow1929.html | publisher=Silent Era | title=On With the Show | accessdate=March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140427083738/http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/O/OnWithTheShow1929.html | archivedate=April 27, 2014}}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/02/entertainment/la-et-classic-hollywood2-2009dec02 | work=LA Times | title=Warner Archive releases early musicals | date=December 2, 2009 | accessdate=March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103175226/http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/02/entertainment/la-et-classic-hollywood2-2009dec02 | archivedate=November 3, 2012}}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11115 | title=On With the Show!: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402172937/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11115 | archivedate= April 2, 2014}}
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3031 | title=Bride of the Regiment: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= January 26, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402182436/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3031 | archivedate= April 2, 2014}}
6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3039 | title=Bright Lights: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402174740/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3039 | archivedate= April 2, 2014}}
7. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9416 | title=Going Wild: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419023759/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9416 | archivedate= April 19, 2014}}
8. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12779 | title=Top Speed: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140402002601/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=12779 | archivedate= April 2, 2014}}
9. ^{{cite web | url=http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=11097 | publisher=Internet Broadway Database | title=They Never Grow Up | accessdate= March 29, 2015| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811221727/http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=11097 | archivedate=August 11, 2014}}
10. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/SearchResult.aspx?s=&Type=WP&Tbl=PN&CatID=&ID=71937&searchedFor=Humphrey_Pearson&SortType=ASC&SortCol=RELEASE_YEAR | publisher=American Film Institute | title=Humphrey Pearson | accessdate=March 29, 2015}}
11. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=4079 | title=The Lost Squadron: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108010232/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=4079 | archivedate= January 8, 2015}}
12. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=5585 | title=Westward Passage: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328180846/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=5585 | archivedate= March 28, 2014}}
13. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=4159 | title=Face in the Sky: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328170404/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=4159 | archivedate= March 28, 2014}}
14. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1104 | title=The Ruggles of Red Gap: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221213916/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=1104| archivedate= February 21, 2015}}
15. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Film Daily | title=Humphrey Pearson, Author, is Found Shot to Death | date=February 26, 1937 | page=2| url=https://archive.org/stream/filmdaily71wids#page/n505/mode/2up/search/%22Humphrey+Pearson%22| accessdate=March 29, 2015}}
16. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7964 | title=Red Salute: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328171142/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7964 | archivedate= March 28, 2014}}
17. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7835 | title=Palm Springs: Detail View | publisher=American Film Institute | accessdate= March 29, 2015 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204123916/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=7835 | archivedate= February 4, 2015}}
18. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The San Bernardino County Sun| title=Guns Found As Mystery Veils Scenarist's Death at Palm Springs Home | date=February 26, 1937 | page=14 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/47160972/?terms=Humphrey%2BPearson}}{{Open access}}
19. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Times and Daily News Leader, San Mateo | title=District Attorney Redwine Clears Mrs. Pearson in Mate's Death | date=March 2, 1937 | page=3 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/38945676/?terms=Humphrey%2BPearson}}{{Open access}}
20. ^{{cite news | newspaper=Santa Cruz Evening News | title=Wife Quizzed in Death of Film Writer | date=February 25, 1937 | page=1 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/62405003/?terms=Humphrey%2BPearson}}{{Open access}}
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