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George Froeschel

AKA: Georg Fröschel
Birthday: 1891-03-09
Died: 1979-11-22


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Georg "George" Froeschel (March 9, 1891 – November 22, 1979) was an Austrian screenwriter best known for Mrs. Miniver, Quentin Durward, and The Story of Three Loves, while working for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. Before working in film he was a lawyer and journalist. Georg Froeschel was born in 1891, the son of a Jewish banker in Vienna. He wrote his first novel during his time at grammar school, Ein Protest (A Protest). After his postgraduate studies he was Doctor of Laws. In World War I he wrote reports for the k.u.k. army. Following he wrote several novels, of which some were adapted for films in the 1920s. In the 1920s he worked for the Ullstein-Verlag in Berlin. In 1936 he emigrated to the United States, where he first worked in the editorial office of Chicago's Coronet magazine. His efforts to find a job in Hollywood's film industry were not successful until April 1939, when Sidney Franklin of MGM engaged him as screenwriter. Froeschel won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay for the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver (along with co-writers James Hilton, Claudine West, and Arthur Wimperis).

Filmography

The Mortal Storm
Job: Screenplay
Random Harvest
Job: Screenplay
Command Decision
Job: Screenplay

Scaramouche
Job: Screenplay
Mrs. Miniver
Job: Screenplay
Mrs. Miniver
Job: Original Film Writer

Waterloo Bridge
Job: Screenplay
Betrayed
Job: Writer
Quentin Durward
Job: Screenplay

I Aim at the Stars
Job: Story
The Story of Three Loves
Job: Adaptation
Gaby
Job: Screenplay

Rose Marie
Job: Screenplay
The Unknown Man
Job: Screenplay
We Were Dancing
Job: Screenplay

The Miniver Story
Job: Writer
Nora
Job: Writer
Me and the Colonel
Job: Screenplay

The White Cliffs of Dover
Job: Screenplay

Never Let Me Go
Job: Screenplay
Weib in Flammen
Job: Novel