Life in Hollywood

By the late 1930s Johnson was famous, one of the highest-paid screenwriters in Hollywood. He said he felt his mother should not be ashamed of the way he turned out, that it was not her fault.

Nora, 
Nunnaly, and Marje Marje Fowler, his daughter by his first marriage, became a film editor. She edited seven films of Nunnally's, including The Three Faces of Eve. She and her husband, Gene Fowler, Jr., won an Emmy for editing an episode of The Waltons.

Nora Johnson , his daughter by his second marriage, became a novelist, biographer, and essay writer. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times and The New Yorker.

Left from left to right, Nora, Nunnally, and Marje.
Right His children by his third marriage (left to right): Scott became an architectural designer whose son, Jack, is starring in Lost in Space with William Hurt; Christie, an artist; and Roxanna, an assistant to Erica Jong. Shown with their mother, Dorris (Bowdon) Johnson, who married Nunnally on February 4, 1940. Dorris 
and chilren
Bogart, Bacall, and Dorris His good-humored personality won him a world of friends. As an example, see the guest list from a 1946 party.

Left Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall with Dorris Johnson (Nunnally is in the background) at a party thrown with the Johnsons to celebrate the Johnsons' eleventh anniversary and the departure of Bogart for Nairobi where he would make The African Queen.

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