George Froeschel

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George Froeschel
Georg Fröschel
Georg Fröschel
Born	(1891-03-09)9 March 1891 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 November 1979(1979-11-22) (aged 88) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Occupation	Novelist & Screenwriter
Years active	1919–1960

George Froeschel (9 March 1891 – 22 November 1979) was an Austrian novelist and screenwriter. In 1943, he received two Academy Award nominations for co-writing screenplays for Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest. He won the Academy Award for Mrs. Miniver.

Biography

Georg Froeschel was born in 1891, the son of a Jewish banker in

• 1921: Roswolsky's Mistress (GER, Felix Basch; based on a novel by G. Froeschel)
• 1921: Der Schlüssel zur Macht (AUT, ? ; based on a novel by G. Froeschel)
• 1927: Der Anwalt des Herzens (GER, Wilhelm Thiele; based on a novel by G. Froeschel)
• 1928: Weib in Flammen (GER, Max Reichmann; based on a novel by G. Froeschel)
• 1929: Scandal in Baden-Baden (GER, Erich Waschneck; based on a novel by G. Froeschel)

Screenwriter

• 1923: Nora (GER, Berthold Viertel)
• 1940: Waterloo Bridge (United States, Mervyn LeRoy)
• 1940: The Mortal Storm (United States, Frank Borzage)
• 1942: Mrs. Miniver (United States, William Wyler)
• 1942: Random Harvest (United States, Mervyn LeRoy)
• 1942: We Were Dancing (United States, Robert Z. Leonard)
• 1943: Madame Curie (United States, Mervyn LeRoy)
• 1944:
  The White Cliffs of Dover (United States, Clarence Brown
  )
• 1948: Command Decision (United States, Sam Wood)
• 1950:
  H.C. Potter
  )
• 1951: The Unknown Man (United States, Richard Thorpe)
• 1952: Scaramouche (United States, George Sidney)
• 1953: The Story of Three Loves (United States, Vincente Minnelli, Gottfried Reinhardt)
• 1953: Never Let Me Go (United States, Delmer Daves)
• 1954: Rose Marie (United States, Mervyn LeRoy)
• 1954: Betrayed (United States, Gottfried Reinhardt)
• 1955: The Adventures of Quentin Durward (United States, Richard Thorpe)
• 1956: Gaby (United States, Curtis Bernhard)
• 1958: Me and the Colonel (United States, Peter Glenville)
• 1960: I Aim at the Stars (United States/GER, J. Lee Thompson)