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Balderston, John Lloyd was born on October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lloyd and Mary F. (Alsop) Balderston.
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Balderston, John Lloyd was born on October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Lloyd and Mary F. (Alsop) Balderston.
Student Columbia University, 1911-1914.
Balderston began his career as a journalist in 1912 while still a student at Columbia University. He worked as the New York correspondent for the Philadelphia Record. He worked as European war correspondent during World War I for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, then was director of information in England and Ireland for the United States Committee on Public Information.
In the early 1920s he was the editor of Outlook magazine in London and then head of the Lond bureau for the New York World.
In 1927, he was retained by Horace Liveright to revise Hamilton Deane"s stage adaptation of Dracula for its American production. This subsequently formed the basis of the 1931 film version, leading Balderston into a screenwriting career, initially for Universal Pictures horror films: in addition to Dracula, he contributed to Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, and Dracula"s Daughter.
He was also one of the team of writers who collaborated on the 1939 film adaptation of Gone with the Wind. Berkeley Square later formed the basis of the musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever.
His 1932 play Red Planet was filmed as Red Planet Mars in 1952.
He died of a heart attack.
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Clubs: Century (New York).
Married Marion Rubicam, March 6, 1921.