{{Short description|Romanian-American screenwriter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Caesar | image = Arthur Caesar (1892–1953).png | birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|3|9|df=yes}} | birth_place = Bucharest, Romania | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1953|6|20|1892|3|9}} | death_place = Beverly Hills, California, US | other_names = | occupation = Screenwriter | years_active = 1924–1951 }} '''Arthur Caesar''' (9 March 1892 – 20 June 1953) was a Romanian-American screenwriter and the brother of songwriter Irving Caesar.

==Biography== Caesar first started writing Hollywood films in 1924. Most of his films 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 seen before getting gunned down outside the cinema.

Caesar died in Beverly Hills, California on June 20, 1953.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-obituary-arthur-caesar/163260960/ |title=Obituary: Arthur Caesar |newspaper=New York Daily News |place=Beverly Hills, California |agency=UP |page=366 |date=1953-06-21 |publication-date=1953-06-22 |access-date=2025-01-17 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''His Darker Self'' (1924) * ''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)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0128361|Arthur Caesar}}

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