DeWitt Bodeen
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DeWitt Bodeen was a film screenwriter
who today is probably best remembered for writing Cat People (1942).
before entering the film business.
In the late 1930s, he began working for RKO and worked his way up to a script writer. Other films include The Curse of the Cat People
(1944), The Seventh Victim
(1943), The Enchanted Cottage
(1945), I Remember Mama
(1948), and Billy Budd
(1962).
He also wrote many articles for the journal Films in Review.
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
who today is probably best remembered for writing Cat People (1942).
Life
Born Homer DeWitt Bodeen, he began his career as an actor and playwrightPlaywright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
before entering the film business.
In the late 1930s, he began working for RKO and worked his way up to a script writer. Other films include The Curse of the Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People
The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton. This film, which was then-film editor Robert Wise's first directing credit, is the sequel to Cat People and has many of the same characters...
(1944), The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim
The Seventh Victim is a 1943 horror and film noir starring Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, Kim Hunter , and Hugh Beaumont, directed by Mark Robson, and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures...
(1943), The Enchanted Cottage
The Enchanted Cottage (1945 film)
The Enchanted Cottage is a 1945 romantic film fantasy starring Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire, and Mildred Natwick. It was based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero...
(1945), I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama
I Remember Mama is a play by John Van Druten. Based on the fictionalized memoir Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes, it focuses on the Hanson family, a loving family of Norwegian immigrants living on Steiner Street in San Francisco in the 1910s.Produced by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein...
(1948), and Billy Budd
Billy Budd (film)
Billy Budd is a 1962 film produced, directed, and co-written by Peter Ustinov. Adapted from the stage play version of Herman Melville's short novel Billy Budd, it starred Terence Stamp as Billy Budd, Robert Ryan as John Claggart, and Ustinov as Captain Vere...
(1962).
He also wrote many articles for the journal Films in Review.