Jay Dratler
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Jay Dratler was born in 1911 in New York City. After attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s, he transferred to a college in France where he became fluent in French and German.
Cashing in on his exceptional language skills on his return to the United States, he become a successful screenwriter and novelist. He was considered very influential during the classic era of film noir in the 1940s. His films include Call Northside 777, The Dark Corner and Laura. He won an Academy Award for Call Northside 777 and was nominated for his writing on Laura.
His son, Jay Dratler, Jr., became a professor of law.
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