Grover Jones
Grover Jones (November 15, 1893 – September 24, 1940) was an American screenwriter - often teamed with William Slavens McNutt - and film director. He wrote more than 104 films between 1920 and his death. He also was a film journal publisher and prolific short story writer. Jones was born in Rosedale, Indiana, grew up in West Terre Haute, Indiana, and died in Hollywood, California. He was the father of American polo pioneer Sue Sally Hale.[1]
Grover Jones | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 15, 1893 Rosedale, Indiana, USA |
| Died | September 24, 1940 (aged 46) |
| Years active | 1920-1940 |
Selected filmography
- Slow as Lightning (1923)
- The Iron Mule (1925)
- Easy Going Gordon (1925)
- The Patent Leather Pug (1925)
- The Merry Cavalier (1926)
- What a Night! (1928)
- The Virginian (1929)
- Dangerous Paradise (1930)
- Tom Sawyer (1930)
- Huckleberry Finn (1931)
- Ladies of the Big House (1931)
- Trouble in Paradise (1932)
- If I Had a Million (1932)
- One Sunday Afternoon (1933)
- Limehouse Blues (1934)
- Behold My Wife (1934)
- The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
- The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
- The Milky Way (1936)
- Souls at Sea (1937)
- Captain Fury (1939)
- Dark Command (1940)
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
- Captain Caution (1940)
- One Million B.C. (1940)
- A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
- The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) (final film)
Partial bibliography
- Derelict (A novelization; Jacobsen-Hodgkinson Corporation, N.Y. (1930))
- Jones': A Movie Magazine By Movie Makers (Vol. I, Number 1 was August 1937; The (Grover) Jones Press, Pacific Palisades (1937))
- There Were Giants, a Story of Blood and Steel (A novel with William Slavens McNutt; M.S. Mill, N.Y. (1939))
References
- "Sue Sally Hale". SShale. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
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