Jerome Cady

'''Jerome Cady''' (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter.

What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as ''Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943), a successful adaptation of ''Forever Amber'' (1947) and the police procedural ''Call Northside 777'' (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose on board his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police.<ref>''Variety'', November 9, 1948, p. 5.</ref> There was a Masonic funeral service for him.<ref>''Variety'', November 10, 1948, p. 11.</ref>

He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for ''Wing and a Prayer'' in 1944.

A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the ''Los Angeles Record,'' before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932.<ref>''Broadcasting'' magazine, June 15, 1932, p. 22</ref> He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio,<ref>''Broadcasting'', September 15, 1935, p. 40</ref> returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.<ref>''Variety'', November 9, 1948.</ref>

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