Jerome Cady, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jerome Cady

American screenwriter

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1903

Place of Birth: Cabell County, West Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 07-Nov-1948

Profession: screenwriter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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 onboard 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.
There was a Masonic funeral service for him.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.
He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc.
as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936.
He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.