John Lee Mahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois – April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1960s. He was known as the favorite writer of Clark Gable and Victor Fleming.[1] In the words of one profile, he had "a flair for rousing adventure material, and at the same time he wrote some of the raciest and most sophisticated sexual comedies of that period."[2]
^"John Lee Mahin, 81;Writer of Screenplays". New York Times. April 21, 1984. p. 1024. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
JohnLeeMahin (August 23, 1902, Evanston, Illinois – April 18, 1984, Los Angeles) was an American screenwriter and producer of films who was active in...
and Michael Kanin (with uncredited work on the rewritten ending by JohnLeeMahin), and produced by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film's plot is about the...
Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by JohnLeeMahin and Martin Rackin was loosely...
was based on an idea by Leo McCarey and developed into a script by JohnLeeMahin. Paramount built interest in the project by reporting the casting of...
Century Fox would make The Alaskans starring John Wayne and written by Martin Rackin and JohnLeeMahin (the three men had just made The Horse Soldiers...
African tribal music recorded in the Congo, the film was adapted by JohnLeeMahin from the play Red Dust by Wilson Collison. The picture is a remake of...
1955 American drama film directed by Robert Parrish and written by JohnLeeMahin and Winston Miller. The film stars Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire...
over to Paramount, where Irving Asher was given the job of producing. JohnLeeMahin was hired to write the script and William Dieterle to direct. Paramount...
release the film without that seal. So we had to change the ending. JohnLeeMahin dreamed up the idea of having the child killed by a bolt of lightning...
vicious ending. Written by W.R. Burnett, Ben Hecht (uncredited), and JohnLeeMahin, and directed by Charles Brabin, the film stars Walter Huston, Jean...
John Marcellus Huston (/ˈhjuːstən/ HEW-stən; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote the screenplays...
picture unit. In addition to McIntyre, he recruited the screenwriter JohnLeeMahin, camera operators Sgts. Mario Toti and Robert Boles, and the sound man...
Civil War directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, William Holden and Constance Towers. The screenplay by JohnLeeMahin and Martin Rackin was loosely...
husband was film director Tay Garnett and the second was screenwriter JohnLeeMahin. Her third husband, businessman E. S. Deans, died in 1986. The frequent...
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