Born on this day – Jay Dratler:

Jay Dratler

Writer

September 14, 1910 – September 25, 1968

Books:

Doctor Paradise (1957); Dream of a Woman (1958); Ducks in Thunder (1940); Goya. A portrait of the artist as a man (1936); Manhattan Side Street (1936); The Judas Kiss (1955); The Pitfall (1947); Without Mercy (1957); Zeppelin, the story of lighter-than-air craft (1937).

Plays:

A Grape for Seeing (1965); The Women of Troy (1966).

Movies and television:

Alcoa Theatre (1959); Breaking Point (1963–1964); Burke's Law (1964); Call Northside 777 (1948); Confessions of Boston Blackie (1941); Dancing in the Dark (1949); Fly-By-Night (1942); Get Hep to Love (1942); Girls Under 21 (1940); Higher and Higher (1943); I Aim at the Stars (1960); Impact (1949); It Comes Up Love (1943); It's in the Bag! (1945); La Conga Nights (1940); Laura (1944); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Meet Boston Blackie (1941); Naked City (1961); Perry Mason (1959); Pitfall (1948); Robert Montgomery Presents (1950); Studio 57 (1958); That Wonderful Urge (1948); The 20th Century-Fox Hour (1957); The Addams Family (1964); The Dark Corner (1946); The Desperate Hours (1955); The Fabulous Oliver Chantry (1953); The Las Vegas Story (1952); The New Addams Family (1998); The Revlon Mirror Theater (1953); The Thin Man (1958); The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942); We're Not Married! (1952); Where Did You Get That Girl? (1941).