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Jo Swerling (April 8, 1897 – October 23, 1964) was an American theatre writer, lyricist, and screenwriter.
70 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. As the Devil Commands is a 1932 American pre-Code film written by Jo Swerling from a story by Keene Thompson. It is directed by Roy William Neill and stars Alan Dinehart, Mae Clarke and Neil Hamilton.
The story, starring Robinson, sympathizes with its regular-guy male lead whose murder-convict lookalike is on the loose from prison. Critic Andre Sennwald of the New York Times named it "the best of the new year's screen comedies."
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.
Writer. Script and Continuity Department. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. 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
Biography for Jo Swerling the Lyricist, Author including canon of works, monologues, songs, scenes and quizzes.
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Jo Swerling died on October 23, 1964 at seventy-one. Abe Burrows During a period of more than four decades he would make his mark in radio and television and on Broadway as a radio humorist, songwriter, pianist, playwright, stage director, and panelist.
