Douglas Morrow

Birth : 1913-09-13, Oswego, New York, USA

Death : 1994-09-09

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Douglas Morrow (13 September 1913 - 9 September 1994) was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Morrow died of an aneurysm in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Douglas Morrow, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Original Film Writer
Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
Maurie
Writer
When an African-American basketball star suffers sudden paralysis, his white friend and teammate assists in his rehabilitation.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Screenplay
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Story
A newspaper publisher, wanting to prove a point about the insufficiency of circumstantial evidence, talks his possible son-in-law Tom into a hoax in an attempt to expose ineptitude of the city's hard-line district attorney. The plan is to have Tom plant clues leading to his arrest for killing a female nightclub dancer. Once Tom is found guilty, he is to reveal the setup and humiliate the DA.
Trouble Along the Way
Story
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Story
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Jim Thorpe – All-American
Screenplay
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
The Stratton Story
Story
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
The Stratton Story
Screenplay
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
Lady Luck
Dan Morgan
A woman marries a gambler with the hopes of reforming him, but things don't quite work out the way she planned.
Maisie Goes to Reno
The MC (Uncredited)
A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.
Bathing Beauty
Stage Manager (uncredited)
After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.