Charles Schnee

Gave up law to become a screenwriter in the mid-1940s, crafting scripts for such excellent works as the classic western, "Red River" (1948), the driving social melodrama "They Live By Night" (1949) and the cynical Hollywood saga, "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952). Schnee worked primarily as a producer and production executive during the mid-1950s but eventually turned his attention back to scriptwriting.