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Fred Franklin Finklehoffe (February 16, 1910, Springfield, Massachusetts – October 5, 1977, Springtown, Pennsylvania) was an American film writer and producer.
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. The noted director and playwright George Abbott liked the piece and produced it on Broadway in December 1936.
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.
Fred Franklin Finklehoffe (February 16, 1910, Springfield, Massachusetts – October 5, 1977, Springtown, Pennsylvania) was an American film writer and producer.
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.
The Egg and I is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by Chester Erskine, who co-wrote the screenplay with Fred F. Finklehoffe, based on the book of the same name by Betty MacDonald and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle .
