Jerome Cady (August 15, 1903 – November 7, 1948) was aHollywoodscreenwriter.
What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up fromCharlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films asGuadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation ofForever Amber (1947) and the police proceduralCall Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of asleeping pilloverdose on board his yacht offCatalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death, he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police.[1] There was a Masonic funeral service for him.[2]
He received anOscar nomination forBest Original Screenplay forWing and a Prayer in 1944.
A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with theLos Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932.[3] He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc. as its director of radio,[4] returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed atRKO between radio jobs.[5]
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