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Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 – October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer, lyricist, and screenwriter. Early life and early career. Born Joseph Swerling in Berdichev, Ukraine, [1] Swerling was one of a number of Jewish refugees from the Tsarist regime.
Jo Swerling. Writer: The Pride of the Yankees. Oscar-nominated Hollywood screenwriter Jo Swerling, who also was a Tony Award-winning Broadway writer and lyricist, was born in Berdichev, Ukraine in what was then the Russian Empire.
- Writer, Script And Continuity Department
- April 18, 1893
- Jo Swerling
- October 23, 1964
SWERLING, Jo(seph) 1897-1964. PERSONAL: Born April 18, 1897, in Bardichov, Russia; died 1964; married Florence Manson; children: Peter, Jo, Jr. CAREER: Screenwriter, playwright, and short-story writer. Journalist for Chicago Herald and Examiner and Chicago correspondent for Variety until 1964.
JO SWERLING was an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and playwright. His work includes the comedy STREET CINDERELLA for the Marx Brothers, for whom he wrote their first movie, the unreleased silent comedy HUMOR RISK.
Jo Swerling. Book, Guys and Dolls. Born in Berdichev, Ukraine, in what was Czarist Russia, Swerling emigrated with his family to New York City’s Lower East Side. He worked as a journalist in the 1920s and began to write plays.
Dec 2, 2001 · Married in 1931, when he was 30 and she was 40, they had by 1945 built a solid reputation writing scripts for pictures, including ''The Thin Man'' and two of its sequels as...
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Jo Swerling was an American theatre writer, lyricist and screenwriter. Born in Berdichev, Russian Empire, Swerling was a refugee of the Czarist regime who grew up on New York City's lower East Side, where he sold newspapers to help support his family.
