George Bradshaw (writer)

George Bradshaw (1909–1973) was an American writer and journalist.

Life

George Floing Bradshaw was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 21, 1909. He was the only child of George Calvert Bradshaw (1880-1921) and Caroline Elizabeth Floing Bradshaw Cunningham (1876-1960). He graduated from Princeton University in 1930. During World War II, he was a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces.^[1] He died in New York on November 11, 1973, at age 64.^[1]

Works

He wrote about 150 short stories, which were printed in Vogue, Ladies Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post,^[2] and Cosmopolitan.^[1]

Books

• 1962: Practise to Deceive (13 stories)
• Five cookbooks:

• Bradshaw, George (1973). Soufflés, Quiches, Mousses & the Random Egg. André Deutsch. ISBN 978-0-233-96400-3.

Films

• 1937: New Faces of 1937. Based on the story "Shoestring"
• 1939: The Lady and the Mob. Story "Old Mrs. Leonard and the Machine Guns"
• 1939: Second Fiddle. Story "When Winter Comes"
• 1952: The Bad and the Beautiful. Story "Of Good and Evil" (longer version is called Memorial to a Bad Man). Charles Schnee received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
• 1953: Letter to Loretta (TV Series), episode "Love Story".
• 1958: Matinee Theatre (TV Series), episode "The Phony Venus".
• 1966: How to Steal a Million, based on a story "Venus Rising" in Practise to Deceive