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Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and film producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He received four Oscar nominations and won once for Best Screenplay for fantasy romantic comedy film Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) along with Seton I. Miller .
Sidney Buchman. Writer. Producer. Soundtrack. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. The son of a Russian émigré clothing merchant, Sidney Buchman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 27 1902. He initially attended the University of Minnesota. After his family moved to New York, he continued his studies at Columbia University, graduating in 1923.
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Sidney Robert Buchman (March 27, 1902 – August 23, 1975) was an American screenwriter and producer who worked on about 40 films from the late 1920s to the early 1970s. He received four Oscar nominations and won once for Best Screenplay for fantasy romantic comedy film Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) along with Seton I. Miller.
Sidney Buchman. Writer: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. The son of a Russian émigré clothing merchant, Sidney Buchman was born in Duluth, Minnesota, on March 27 1902. He initially attended the University of Minnesota. After his family moved to New York, he continued his studies at Columbia University, graduating in 1923. The following year, he travelled to England and worked as an assistant ...
Aug 25, 1975 · Sidney Buchman, film producer and scenarist, who wrote the screenplay for “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring James Stewart, in 1939, died Saturday in Cannes, France, where he had lived ...
Sidney Buchman wrote, alone or in collaboration, some of the best socially oriented screenplays in the American cinema, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and The Talk of the Town , managing to make his messages palatable to audiences in the guise of entertainment. In this, he was aided by such arbiters of public taste as the directors Frank Capra and George Stevens and the enticing screen ...
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His Sidney Buchman Productions produced the comedy Over 21, from the Ruth Gordon play, and the Jolson sequel, Jolson Sings Again, before the blacklist took effect. He admitted to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had been a member of the Communist party in his youth, but refused to name names, and was subsequently fined, given a suspended sentence, and unofficially blacklisted.
