Oscar Saul
American writer

Oscar Saul

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American writer
Gender:
Male
Birth:
26 December 1912(New York City)
Death:
23 May 1994
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Oscar Saul (December 26, 1912, New York City – May 23, 1994, Los Angeles) was an American writer. Saul wrote or collaborated on the screenplays for numerous movies from the 1940s through to the early 1980s. His best-known work was on the screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

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As writer, unless otherwise specified.

  • Once Upon a Time (1944)
  • Road House (1948; story)
  • The Dark Past (1948; adaptation)
  • The Lady Gambles (1949; story)
  • Once More, My Darling (1949; additional dialogue)
  • Woman in Hiding (1950)
  • The Secret of Convict Lake (1951)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951; adaptation of the play)
  • Thunder on the Hill (1952)
  • Affair in Trinidad (1952)
  • Let's Do It Again (1953; producer)
  • The Joker Is Wild (1957)
  • The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
  • The Naked Maja (1958; story)
  • The Second Time Around (1961)
  • Major Dundee (1965)
  • The Silencers (1966)
  • The Strange Affair (1968)
  • Man and Boy (1971)
  • Los Amigos (1972)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1984)