# Harry Segall

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American screenwriter

**Harry Segall** (April 10, 1892 – November 25, 1975) was an American [playwright](/source/Playwright), [screenwriter](/source/Screenwriter) and television writer. Harry Segall was born in [Chicago](/source/Chicago).

Harry Segall's writing career spans 1933 to 1959. Segall's plays, including *[Lost Horizons](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost_Horizons_(play)&action=edit&redlink=1)*, appeared on [Broadway](/source/Broadway_theatre) in the mid-1930s. In 1933, [Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer](/source/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) brought Segall to [Hollywood](/source/Hollywood%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California) as a contract writer. In 1936, he moved to [RKO Pictures](/source/RKO_Pictures) where he wrote and co-wrote [screenplays](/source/Screenplay) for [films](/source/Film) such as *[The Outcasts of Poker Flat](/source/The_Outcasts_of_Poker_Flat)*, based on a story by [Bret Harte](/source/Bret_Harte) and *[Blind Alibi](/source/Blind_Alibi),* starring [Richard Dix](/source/Richard_Dix_(actor)). During this time, [Paramount Pictures](/source/Paramount_Pictures) and [Universal Studios](/source/Universal_Pictures) also produced his screenplays.

In 1941, Segall won an [Academy Award](/source/Academy_Award) for best original story for the film *[Here Comes Mr. Jordan](/source/Here_Comes_Mr._Jordan)*, starring [Robert Montgomery](/source/Robert_Montgomery_(actor)) and [Evelyn Keyes](/source/Evelyn_Keyes), based on Segall's play *[Heaven Can Wait](https://archive.org/details/heavencanwaitcom0000sega/mode/2up)*. The play was later revived under the title *Wonderful Journey*, but the revival lasted only nine performances.[1]

A Technicolor sequel to *Here Comes Mr. Jordan*, *[Down to Earth](/source/Down_to_Earth_(1947_film))* was released in 1947 starring [Rita Hayworth](/source/Rita_Hayworth) and [Larry Parks](/source/Larry_Parks).

A 1978 film version of *[Heaven Can Wait](/source/Heaven_Can_Wait_(1978_film))* starred [Warren Beatty](/source/Warren_Beatty) and [Julie Christie](/source/Julie_Christie), and the play was then filmed again as *[Down to Earth](/source/Down_to_Earth_(2001_film))*, a 2001 vehicle for [Chris Rock](/source/Chris_Rock), with Segall credited as the writer of the original story.

With the advent of television, Segall turned his writing talents to this medium, writing plots for TV series and *[Playhouse 90](/source/Playhouse_90)*. He retired from screenwriting in 1959 and died November 25, 1975, in Woodland Hills, California. Segall was interred in Roosevelt Cemetery, in Gardena, California.

## Selected filmography

- *[Two Yanks in Trinidad](/source/Two_Yanks_in_Trinidad)* (1942)

- Angel on My Shoulder (1946)

- Monkey Business (1952)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** League, The Broadway. ["Wonderful Journey – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB"](http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=1497). *www.ibdb.com*.

## External links

- [Harry Segall Papers](https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=00172) at the [Harry Ransom Center](/source/Harry_Ransom_Center)

- [Harry Segall](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0781895/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier))

- [Harry Segall](https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/6143) at the [Internet Broadway Database](/source/Internet_Broadway_Database)

v t e Academy Award for Best Story Ben Hecht (1927/28) No Award (1928/29) No Award (1929/30) John Monk Saunders (1930/31) Frances Marion (1931/32) Robert Lord (1932/33) Arthur Caesar (1934) Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Robert Carson and William Wellman (1937) Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary (1938) Lewis R. Foster (1939) Benjamin Glazer and John Toldy (1940) Harry Segall (1941) Emeric Pressburger (1942) William Saroyan (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Charles G. Booth (1945) Clemence Dane (1946) Valentine Davies (1947) Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler (1948) Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt (1950) James Bernard and Paul Dehn (1951) Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank, and Theodore St. John (1952) Dalton Trumbo (1953) Philip Yordan (1954) Daniel Fuchs (1955) Robert Rich (1956)

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