{{short description|American writer}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2018}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Harry Behn | image = Harry_Behn.png | caption = Behn, c. 1970 | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|9|24}} | birth_place = McCabe, Arizona, United States | death_date = {{Death date and age|1973|9|6|1898|9|24}} | death_place = Seville, Spain | alma_mater = Harvard University | spouse = {{marriage|Alice Lawrence|1905}} | children = 3 }}
'''Harry Behn''' (September 24, 1898{{spaced ndash}}September 6, 1973) was an American former screenwriter.
He was involved in writing scenes and continuities for a number of screenplays, including the war film ''The Big Parade ''in 1925, and ''Hell's Angels''. He graduated from Harvard University in 1922. Behn retired from screenwriting in the 1930s; he worked as a creative writing professor at the University of Arizona from 1938 to 1947 and co-founded the University of Arizona Press; he would later move to Connecticut and transition to children's literature. He died in Seville in 1973 during a trip.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1973-09-10 |title=HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/10/archives/harry-behn-dead-an-early-scenarist.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-02 |title=Harry Behn {{!}} Phoenix Theater: An Eccentric History |url=https://phoenixtheaterhistory.com/early-history/harry-behn/ |access-date=2024-01-06 |language=en-US}}</ref> His son, Peter Behn was cast as young Thumper in the film ''Bambi''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-05-23 |title=Why the 82-Year-Olds Who Voiced Bambi and Thumper Never Revealed They Were Part of 1942 Disney Classic |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/82-year-olds-voiced-bambi-thumper-never-revealed-part-1942-disney-classic-214200882.html |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Yahoo Entertainment |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Filmography== *''The Big Parade'' (1925) *''Proud Flesh'' (1925), with Agnes Christine Johnson *''La Bohème'' (1926), with Ray Doyle *''The Crowd'' (1928), with King Vidor and John V.A. Weaver *''The Racket'' (1928), with Del Andrews *''Frozen River'' (1929) *''Sin Sister'' (1929), with Andrew Bennison *''Hell's Angels'' (1930), with Howard Estabrook *''Secret of the Chateau'' (1934), with Richard Thorpe
==Bibliography== *''Siesta (poetry)'', Golden Bough, 1937 *''All Kinds of Time'', Harcourt, 1950. *''Rhymes of the Times'', under the pen name Jim Hill, published privately, 1950. *''Windy Morning'', Harcourt, 1953. *''The House beyond the Meadow'', Pantheon, 1955. *''The Wizard in the Well'', Harcourt, 1956. *''Chinese Proverbs from Olden Times'', Peter Pauper, 1956. *''(Translator and illustrator) Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies'', Peter Pauper, 1957. *''The Painted Cave'', Harcourt, 1957. *''Timmy's Search'', Seabury, 1958. *''The Two Uncles of Pablo'', Harcourt, 1959. *''(Translator) 300 Classic Haiku'', Peter Pauper, 1962. *''(Translator, along with Peter Beilenson) Haiku Harvest: Japanese haiku. Series IV'', Peter Pauper, 1962. *''The Faraway Lurs'', World Publishing, 1963. *''(Translator) Cricket Songs: Japanese haiku'', Harcourt, 1964. *''Omen of the Birds'', World Publishing, 1964. *''The Golden Hive'', Harcourt, 1957–1966. *''Chrysalis: Concerning Children and Poetry'', Harcourt, 1949–1968. *''What a Beautiful Noise'', World Publishing, 1970. *''(Translator) More Cricket Songs: Japanese haiku'', Harcourt, 1971. *''Crickets and Bullfrogs and Whispers of Thunder: Poems and Pictures'', edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, Harcourt, 1949–1984. *''Trees: A Poem'', illustrated by James Endicott, H. Holt (New York, NY), 1992. *''Halloween'', illustrated by Greg Couch, north–south (New York, NY), 2003. *''The kite'' (Missing date).
Behn's translations of haiku provided the texts for two works by Norman Dinerstein: *''Cricket Songs'' for unison children's chorus and piano (1967)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MD8hAQAAIAAJ&dq=behn+%22cricket+songs%22+dinerstein&pg=PA132|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|last=Library of Congress Copyright Office|date=Aug 14, 1971|accessdate=Aug 14, 2021|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Frogs'' for SATB chorus (1977)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://musicasacra.org/052210.html|title=Musica Sacra, a choral ensemble based in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA | Official Web Site | Mary's Playlist: All-Time Favorites - May 22, 2010|website=musicasacra.org|accessdate=Aug 14, 2021|archive-date=August 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814175055/https://musicasacra.org/052210.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
== Notes == {{Reflist}}
==References== ''Book Poems: Poems from National Children's Book Week 1959–1998'', page 26. Children's Book Council, 1998.<br /> ''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2003.<br /> ''Rememberings'', by Alice Lawrence Behn Goebel, edited by Pamela Behn Adam. Published privately, 1983[?].<br /> ''St. James Guide to Children's Writers'', 5th ed. St. James Press, 1999.<br /> [https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/10/archives/harry-behn-dead-an-early-scenarist.html HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST] (obituary on page 38 of the ''New York Times'', Monday, September 10, 1973)
==External links== {{Portal|Children's literature}} *[http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv12322 Guide to the Harry Behn papers at the University of Oregon]
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