Reply #210: Screenwriter John Michael Hayes ("Rear Window")

[CBHagman]

Again, you may not know the name, but you definitely know the work! Good stuff.


His IMDB credits:


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0371088/


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/24/AR2008112402850.html

John Michael Hayes, 89, a screenwriter who added sexy sophistication to Alfred Hitchcock's films "Rear Window" and "To Catch a Thief" and toned down explicit material for movie adaptations of the popular books "Peyton Place" and "Butterfield 8," died of renal failure Nov. 19 at a retirement community in Hanover, N.H.

Mr. Hayes was credited with writing more than 1,500 radio scripts, including comedy and detective shows, before his work for Hitchcock propelled him to the front rank of screenwriters in the 1950s.

They forged a partnership that created some of the director's most engaging films of his greatest professional decade, said film scholar David Sterritt. Mr. Hayes, he said, "successfully mediated between Hitchcock's imagination and the requirements of a polished Hollywood screenplay."