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Romanian-American screenwriter
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Male
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Birth:
9 March 1892(Bucharest, Principality of Wallachia)
Death:
20 June 1953(Beverly Hills, USA)
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Yale University
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The details
Biography
Introduction
Arthur Caesar (9 March 1892 – 20 June 1953) was a screenwriter. Romanian by birth, and brother of the songwriter Irving Caesar, Caesar first started writing Hollywood movies in 1924. Most of his movies were in the B-movie category. He won an Academy Award for the story of Manhattan Melodrama (1934), which is most famous today for being the film that John Dillinger had just been to see before getting gunned down outside the cinema.
Selected filmography
- Napoleon's Barber (1928)
- The Aviator (1929)
- She Couldn't Say No (1930)
- The Life of the Party (1930)
- Gold Dust Gertie (1931)
- Side Show (1931)
- Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
- Atlantic City (1944)
- I Accuse My Parents (1944)
- Three of a Kind (1944)