Elliott Nugent

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Elliott Nugent September 20 1896 Dover Ohio August 9 1980 New York City was an American actor writer and film director He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound He directed The Cat and the Canary 1939 starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die 1939 and My Favorite Brunette 1947 Nugent was a college classmate and lifelong friend of fellow Ohioan James Thurber Together they wrote the Broadway play The Male Animal 1940 in which Nugent starred with Gene Tierney He also directed the 1942 Warner Bros film version of The Male Animal starring Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland Nugents autobiography Events Leading Up to the Comedy 1965 skips over large portions of Nugents life and work but deals honestly with the alcoholism that largely ended his career Nugent was the son of veteran actor JC Nugent who sometimes wrote or acted with Elliott Description above from the Wikipedia article Elliott Nugent licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia