Mildred Cram
Mildred Cram | |
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| Born | October 17, 1889 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Died | April 4, 1985 (aged 95) |
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Mildred Cram (October 17, 1889 – April 4, 1985) was an American writer.[1]
Career
[edit]Her short story "Stranger Things" was included in the O. Henry Award story collection for 1921.[2] A number of her stories and novels were made into films. She was nominated, along with Leo McCarey, for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story, for Love Affair (1939).[3]
Gerald Clarke wrote in his biography Get Happy: The Life of Judy Garland that Cram was Tyrone Power's favorite author.[4] Power introduced Garland to Cram's novella Forever, which Garland could eventually "quote word for word".[4] Over the years, several attempts were made to adapt the story, but without success. In the 1930s, Cram sold it for $15,000.[5] It changed hands a few more times. In 1942, movie columnist Louella Parsons announced that Hedy Lamarr and Robert Taylor had been cast for a film adaptation of the story.[6] In 1955, it was reported that Bill Bacher, co-producer of the Broadway play Seventh Heaven,[7] had bought the play rights and would be making it into a Broadway musical.[5]
Family
[edit]Painter Allan Gilbert Cram is her brother.[8]
Works
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- All the King's Horses, book-length novel, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 1936
- Forever, novella (60 pages), Alfred A. Knopf, April 22, 1938; 13th printing, November 1954[9][10]
- The Promise[10]
- Old Seaport Towns of the South ; Drawings by Allan Gilbert Cram. 1917 [10]
- Lotus Salad ; Illustrated by Frederick Coffay Yohn. 1920 [10]
- Stranger Things / by Mildred Cram 1923 [10]
- Kingdom of Innocents[10]
- Born in Time: A Re-telling of the Traditional Christmas Nativity Story[10]
- Scotch Valley[10]
- The Tide[10]
- Sir[10]
Filmography
[edit]- Subway Sadie (1926) (story "Sadie of the Desert")
- Behind the Make-Up (1930) (story "The Feeder")
- This Modern Age (1931) (story "Girls Together")
- Amateur Daddy (1932) (novel Scotch Valley)
- Sinners in the Sun (1932) (story "The Beachcomber")
- Faithless (1932) (novel Tinfoil)
- Maquillage (1932), also known as Make Up (novella The Feeder)
- Stars Over Broadway (1935) (story "Thin Air")
- Mariners of the Sky/Navy Born (1936) (story)
- Wings Over Honolulu (1937) (story)
- Love Affair (1939) (story)
- Beyond Tomorrow (1940), also known as Beyond Christmas (story)
- An Affair to Remember (1957) (story)
- Love Affair (1994) (story)
References
[edit]- ^ "Authors No Longer "Slave" In Garrets!: Successful Writers Of Today Have Different Slant On Life Than Immortals Of Yesteryear!". Daily Capital Journal. May 29, 1937 – via Newspapers.com.
Note image of Cram on the left.
- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories: Past Winners List". Random House.
- ^ "Academy Awards Database: 1939 (12th)". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ^ a b Clarke, Gerald (2000). Get Happy: the Life of Judy Garland. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-385-33515-6.
- ^ a b Hedda Hopper's Staff (July 5, 1955). "Producer Buys Play Rights to 'Forever' from Metro". Chicago Tribune – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Parsons, Louella (January 30, 1942). "Hedy Lamarr, Robert Taylor Are Cast In Mildred Cram's Fantasy, Distant Valley". The Fresno Bee. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ William Bacher at the Internet Broadway Database
- ^ "Old Seaport Towns of the South". Floridiana Collection » Florida Book Collection. Florida Atlantic University Libraries. Retrieved December 8, 2025.
- ^ "forever-by-mildred-cram". nytimes.com. April 21, 1935.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Books by Mildred Cram (Author of Forever)". goodreads. Retrieved December 8, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Works by Mildred Cram at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Mildred Cram at the Internet Archive
- Mildred Cram - goodreads
- Works by Mildred Cram at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Mildred Cram at IMDb
