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Fred Franklin Finklehoffe (February 16, 1910, Springfield, Massachusetts – October 5, 1977, Springtown, Pennsylvania) was an American film writer and producer. He was educated at Virginia Military Institute (V.M.I.) where he met his writing partner John Cherry Monks Jr. (both class of 1932).
Fred F. Finklehoffe. Writer: Meet Me in St. Louis. After graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1932, Finklehoffe and fellow graduate, John Monks Jr., decided to re-write their college thesis on cadet life at VMI as a play.
- Writer, Producer, Additional Crew
- February 16, 1910
- Fred F. Finklehoffe
- October 5, 1977
Oct 7, 1977 · Fred F. Finklehoffe, film and stage producer, playwright and screenwriter, died Wednesday morning at his farm in Springtown, Pa. He was 67 years old.
Fred F. Finklehoffe. Writer: Meet Me in St. Louis. After graduating from the Virginia Military Institute in 1932, Finklehoffe and fellow graduate, John Monks Jr., decided to re-write their college thesis on cadet life at VMI as a play.
- February 16, 1910
- October 5, 1977
The film was adapted by Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe from a series of short stories by Sally Benson originally published in The New Yorker magazine called "The Kensington Stories" and later in novel form as Meet Me in St. Louis.
Fred Franklin Finklehoffe (February 16, 1910, Springfield, Massachusetts – October 5, 1977, Springtown, Pennsylvania) was an American film writer and producer. He was educated at Virginia Military Institute (V.M.I.) where he met his writing partner John Cherry Monks Jr. (both class of 1932).
Fred F. Finklehoffe is known as an Screenplay, Writer, Story, Producer, and Theatre Play. Some of their work includes Meet Me in St. Louis, At War with the Army, For Me and My Gal, The Egg and I, The Stooge, Strike Up the Band, Babes on Broadway, and Girl Crazy.
