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Joseph Grubb Alexander (December 25, 1887 – January 11, 1932) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for more than 90 films between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander.
J. Grubb Alexander was born on 25 December 1887 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA. J. Grubb was a writer, known for The Trail of the Octopus (1919), The Belle of Broadway (1926) and The Man Who Laughs (1928).
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J. Grubb Alexander is known as an Writer, Screenplay, Story, Scenario Writer, Adaptation, and Continuity. Some of his work includes The Man Who Laughs, Svengali, The Mad Genius, Outward Bound, Moby Dick, The Hatchet Man, The County Fair, and A Notorious Affair.
So Big is a 1932 pre-Code American drama film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Barbara Stanwyck. The screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander and Robert Lord is based on the 1924 Pulitzer Prize -winning novel of the same name, by Edna Ferber . So Big was the second full-scale screen adaptation of the Ferber novel.
Joseph Grubb Alexander (December 25, 1887 – January 11, 1932) was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 98 films between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander.
Opting for a happy ending rather than the death and suicide of the novel of The Man Who Laughs, screenwriter J Grubb Alexander sees all four of our heroes sailing off into the sunrise, to the strains of Hirsch, Pollack and Rapee’s ‘When Love Comes Stealing’, a song which informs much of the film’s score.
Joseph Grubb Alexander was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 98 films between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Joseph and Florence Grubb Alexander.
