Arthur Caesar

Romanian-American screenwriter

Arthur Caesar
Born	9 March 1892 Bucharest, Romania
Died	20 June 1953(1953-06-20) (aged 61) Los Angeles, California
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1924–1951

Arthur Caesar (9 March 1892 – 20 June 1953) was a Romanian-American screenwriter and brother of the songwriter Irving Caesar. 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.

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)

External links

Arthur Caesar at IMDb

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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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