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American screenwriter

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Writer Fredric M. Frank (July 9, 1911 New York City - May 9, 1977 Los Angeles, California) was a favourite scribe of Cecil B. deMille and worked with him on several of his epic productions throughout the 1940s and 1950s including Unconquered, Samson and Delilah, The Greatest Show on Earth for which he won an Academy Award for Best Story (shared with Theodore St. John and Frank Cavett), and The Ten Commandments.

His last film was El Cid in 1961.

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v t e Academy Award for Best Story
Ben Hecht (1927/28) No Award (1928/29) No Award (1929/30) John Monk Saunders (1930/31) Frances Marion (1931/32) Robert Lord (1932/33) Arthur Caesar (1934) Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (1935) Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936) Robert Carson and William Wellman (1937) Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary (1938) Lewis R. Foster (1939) Benjamin Glazer and John Toldy (1940) Harry Segall (1941) Emeric Pressburger (1942) William Saroyan (1943) Leo McCarey (1944) Charles G. Booth (1945) Clemence Dane (1946) Valentine Davies (1947) Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler (1948) Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt (1950) James Bernard and Paul Dehn (1951) Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank and Theodore St. John (1952) Dalton Trumbo (1953) Philip Yordan (1954) Daniel Fuchs (1955) Robert Rich (1956)

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