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Jan 1, 2011 · Sy Bartlett was a Hollywood screenwriter and an Air Force officer in World War II. He and Beirne Lay Jr. wrote a novel based on their wartime experiences, which became the classic movie Twelve O’Clock High about B-17 bombers in England.
Sy Bartlett was born on 10 July 1900 in Nikolayev, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire [now Mykolaiv, Ukraine]. He was a writer and producer, known for Cape Fear (1962), The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939) and 13 Rue Madeleine (1947).
Jun 9, 2022 · Two colleagues at VIII Bomber Command, force historian Beirne Lay Jr. and intelligence officer Sy Bartlett, were eyewitnesses to the Eighth Air Force’s victory in the European Theater. After the war, the pair got together to write a novel about their experiences and decided to base their tough-as-nails main character—General Frank Savage—on Frank Armstrong, whom they both knew well.
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Sy Bartlett was born Sacha Baraniev on July 10, 1900, in the Black Sea seaport of Mykolaiv in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). His parents immigrated to the United States in 1904, settling in Chicago. Bartlett attended Northwestern University and was trained at the Medill School of Journalism.
Sy Bartlett is the author of Twelve O'clock High (4.40 avg rating, 126 ratings, 18 reviews, published 1948), Down to the sea in ships (0.0 avg rating, ...
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Twelve O'Clock High. Twelve O'Clock High is a 1949 American war film directed by Henry King and based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay, Jr. It stars Gregory Peck as Brig. General Frank Savage. Hugh Marlowe, Gary Merrill, Millard Mitchell, and Dean Jagger also appear in supporting roles.
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Lay Jr. and Sy Bartlett, who drew deeply on their own wartime experiences. Both had been successful Hollywood screen-writers before the war, but in 1943, when “Twelve O’Clock High” takes place, they were Air Force officers in England. Lay, the principal author, was either a direct participant in or an eyewitness to By John T. Correll
