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Frederick Hugh Herbert (May 29, 1897 – May 17, 1958) was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, and infrequent film director.
- Introduction
- Hugh Herbert vs. F. Hugh Herbert
- Writer to Actor at RKO
- The Public Record
- Rose Epstein and Anita Pam, One and The Same
- The Hugh Herbert We Remember
- Divorce and Death
- Sources
“The best business in the world is to make people laugh. Plenty of laughter means good health. Then people are usually happy when they are laughing, and what is better than to make people happy?” --Hugh Herbert, 1916. “People seem to enjoy me on the screen because I always act the part of a dullard, a very stupid fellow … and that makes them feel s...
F. Hugh Herbert arrived first, in 1926 with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he wrote scripts for Greta Garbo and Lew Cody films. F. Hugh signed a long term deal with MGM in February 1927 and remained with that company until August 1928 when he signed on with Paramount. Meanwhile, Hugh, the future Woo Woo! man, was himself already a long established and ...
RKO head of production William Le Baron hired Hugh in response to his work on The Great Gabbo and Herbert gained a long term deal with the company after both scripting and directing the Lowell Sherman vehicle He Knew Women (1930). Herbert was then assigned as dialogue director on the popular railroad movie Danger Lights starring Louis Wolheimand Ro...
Hugh Francis Herbert was born in Binghamton, New York, August 10, 1884 (The California Death Index and Herbert’s own gravestone give the date as 1885, but Hugh’s World War I and World War IIdraft registration cards give the date in his own hand as 1884. The IMDb is way off as of this writing with 1887). Hugh was the middle child of John Herbert and...
Rose, described as a non-professional by Variety in their 1917 wedding notice, was born in Kentucky and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. Rose was said to be visiting her cousin backstage in New York the year before when she came upon Hugh trying to overcome the effects of a bad head cold so he could perform his part in The Predictionthat night. Seeing ...
As Hugh Herbert became a screen personality during the early 1930s it’s interesting to note the versatility shown during his earliest roles at RKO. He’s a toned-down version of his later self alongside Edna May Oliver in Laugh and Get Rich (1931) and delivers a combination of the madcap along with more reflective moments in Traveling Husbands(1931)...
Rose told Vivian Cosby that Hollywood had changed Hugh and, while never mentioning her own career, times had been better for them back in New York in earlier days. “I kept house while Hugh worked on new routines. I’d listen to him go over and over them, while we both dreamed of the day he would land a part on Broadway.” Hugh mentioned Rose’s consta...
Carroll, Harrison. “The Woo-Woo Man Loses His Temper.” American Weekly 16 Jan 1949: 5. Web. Old Fulton NY Post Cards. 10 Nov 2013.Cosby, Vivian. ”Money Spoils a Dream.” American Weekly 2 Oct 1949: 9. Web. Google News. 7 Nov 2013.”Find A ‘Find.’” Variety 7 Jan 1911: 3. Web. Media History Digital Archive. 7 Nov 2013.Hamilton, Sara. “Woo, Woo—and I Do Mean Woo.” Photoplay Aug 1938: 63. Web. Media History Digital Archive. 9 Nov 2013.F. Hugh Herbert was born on May 29, 1897 in Vienna, Austria. He was a writer and director, known for The Moon Is Blue (1953) , Sitting Pretty (1948) and The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953) . He was married to Mary Alice Lenkey and Arline LaVerne.
- May 29, 1897
- May 17, 1958
Frederick Hugh Herbert (May 29, 1897 - May 17, 1958) was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, short story writer, and infrequent film director. Born in Vienna, Austria, Herbert was educated at the University of London.
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Frederick Hugh Herbert wrote for the theater, film, television, and radio from the 1920s until 1958. His more than 80 screenwriting credits include a collaboration with another WGAw president and fellow writer, Howard J. Green, for If You Could Cook (1935), Home, Sweet Homicide (1946), Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay (1948), and Let’s Make It Legal ...
Frederick Hugh Herbert was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist and short story writer. He is best remembered for Margie (1946), Home Sweet Homicide (1946), Sitting Pretty (1948), Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948), Our Very Own (1949), and the controversial Moon Is Blue (1953).
