Breaking Into Hollywood
In 1927 Paramount Pictures bought Johnson's Saturday Evening Post
story, "Rough House Rosie" and filmed it starring Clara Bow.
Starting in 1932 Johnson moved to Hollywood full time as a screenwriter,
and wrote for the next thirty-four years, primarily for Twentieth Century-Fox.
The first screenplay of which he had sole control was The House of
Rothschild (1934). Though he thought of himself as a humorous writer and
hesitated to accept this serious assignment from Darryl Zanuck, the film
was so successful that it allowed Twentieth Century Pictures to buy Fox
and build the Twentieth Century-Fox corporation.
Johnson became more confident of writing for a wide range of genres. In
his ensuing career, from 1932-1967, he wrote the screenplays for fifty-one
films and produced or directed others.
A list of his films is available here.
A list of the actors and actresses with whom he worked is available here.
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