# Nunnally Johnson

Nunnally Johnson (Columbus, Geòrgia, 5 de desembre de 1897 − Hollywood, Califòrnia, 25 març de 1977) va ser un novel·lista, guionista, productor i director de cinema estatunidenc.

## Biografia

Comença una carrera literària signant a partir de 1923 un gran nombre de novel·les, algunes de les pertanyen al gènere policíac i a la comèdia romàntica, per a diverses revistes sobretot Smart Set i The Saturday Evening Post. El 1933, posa fi a l'escriptura de novel·les quan és cridat a Hollywood on serà guionista. El seu treball és coronat, ja que recull dos nomenaments als Oscars per als seus guions adaptats per a El raïm de la ira (1940), pel·lícula de John Ford, a partir de la novel·la homònima de John Steinbeck, i per a Holy Matrimony (1943), pel·lícula de John Stahl, segons la novel·la Buried Alive d'Arnold Bennett.
Johnson es converteix en productor el 1935 i passa darrere la càmera en els anys 1950, tot continuant la seva activitat de guionista. Com a realitzador, és sobretot conegut per a tres pel·lícules: Black Widow (1954), amb Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin i Gene Tierney, segons la novel·la homònima de Patrick Quentin; The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956), amb Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones i Fredric March; i The Three Faces of Eve (1957), amb Joanne Woodward, Lee J. Cobb i David Wayne, pel·lícula que li val l'Oscar al millor actor a Woodward en la 30a cerimònia dels Oscars el 1958.
Nunnally Johnson va tenir tres esposes: Marion Byrnes, Alice Mason i Dorris Bowdon. Amb aquesta última, ha tingut tres fills, entre els quals Marjorie Fowler. És l'avi de Jack Johnson i el sogre de Gene Fowler, Jr..

## Obra
### Novel·les

| Ashes to Ashes (1923) Scarehead (1923) I Owe It All to My Wife (1923) Doing Right by Nell (1923) The Ad Section (1924) The Happy Ending (1924) Twins (1924) The Rollicking God (1924) A Scream in the Dark (1925) The Hero (1925) Lovelorn (1925) The Hearse Horse (1925) The Laughing Death (1925) The Death of an Infinitive Splitter (1925) The Love of a Moron (1926) His Name in the Papers (1926) Fame Is a Bubble (1926) Rough-House Rosie (1926) It Probably Never Happened (1926) A Portrait of the Guió (1926) Straight from Nova York (1926) A Lady of Broadway (1927) A Good Little Man (1927) An Artist Has His Pride (1927) The Betting Bookworm (1928) The Anti-Nova York (1928) Comedy (1928) Young Poison (1928) The Driving Afflatus (1928) The Actor (1928) The Private Life of the Dixie Flash (1928) Nova York - My Mammy! (1928) The World's Shortest Love Affair (1928) Good Old Uncle Homer (1928) Simple Honors (1928) A Pain in the Neck (1929) Not If You Gave It to Me! (1929) | The Pagliacci Blues (1929) Mlle. Irene the Great (1929) One Meets Such Interesting People (1929) A Victim of the War (1929) Away from It All (1930) The Burglar's Bride (1930) The Shocking Case of Gregory Elwood (1930) Those Old Pals of Hers (1930) Twenty Horses (1930) There Ought to Be a Law (1930) It's In the Blood (1930) Women Have No Sense of Humor (1930) A Woman at the Wheel (1930) The Lowest Form of Humor (1931) Dixie Belle (1931) The Woman's Touch (1931) Nightmare (1931) The Lion in the Bronx (1931) Author! Author! (1931) Gregory Smashes His Inferiority Complex (1931) The Submachine-Gun School of Literature (1931) Pillar of Strength (1931) Josie (1931) No Hits, No Runs, One Error (1931) It's the Old Calorie Game (1932) The Floyd Gibbons Influence (1932) The Man Who Made a Speech (1932) Krazy (1932) Blood from the Moon (1932) Once a Sucker (1933) Holy Matrimony (1933) The Wizard (1933) The Twelfth Baronet (1933) Lulabel the Lulu (1933) He Knows Better Now (1937) Clothes Make the Man (1939) |

### Filmografia
#### Guionista

| 1933: A Bedtime Story 1934: Moulin rouge 1934: The House of Rothschild 1934: Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back 1934: Kid Milions 1935: Cardinal Richelieu 1935: Baby Face Harrington 1935: Thanks a Million 1935: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo 1936: The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936: The Road to Glory 1936: Banjo on My Knee 1939: Wife, Husband and Friend 1939: Rose of Washington Square 1939: Jesse James 1940: El raïm de la ira (The Grapes of Wrath) 1940: I Was an Adventuress 1940: Chad Hanna 1941: Tobacco Road 1942: Roxie Hart 1942: Moontide 1942: The Pied Piper 1942: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty 1943: The Moon Is Down 1943: Holy Matrimony 1944: Casanova Brown 1944: The Keys of the Kingdom 1945: The Woman in the Window 1945: The Southerner 1945: El cavaller de l'oest (Along Came Jones) | 1946: The Dark Mirror 1948: Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid 1949: Everybody Does It 1950: Three came honte 1950: The Gunfighter 1950: The Mudlark 1951: The Long Dark Hall 1951: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1952: Phone call from a stranger 1952: We're Not Married! 1952: O. Henry's Full House 1952: My Cousine Rachel 1953: How to Marry a Millionaire 1954: Night People 1954: Testimoni d'un assassinat (Witness to Murder) 1954: Black Widow 1955: How to Be Very, Very Popular 1956: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1957: Oh, Men! Oh, Women! 1957: The Three Faces of Eve 1959: The Man Who Understood Women 1960: The Angel Wore Red 1960: Flaming Star 1962: Something's Got to Give 1962: Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 1963: Take Her, She's Mine 1964: The World of Henry Orient 1965: Dear Brigitte 1967: Els dotze del patíbul (The Dirty Dozen) |

#### Productor

| 1935: Cardinal Richelieu 1935: The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo 1936: The Prisoner of Shark Island 1936: The Country Doctor 1936: The Road to Glory (productor associat) 1936: Dimples 1936: Banjo on My Knee 1937: Nancy Steele Is Missing! 1937: Café Metropole 1937: Slave Ship 1937: Love Under Fire 1939: Jesse James 1939: Wife, Husband and Friend 1939: Rose of Washington Square 1940: The Grapes of Wrath 1940: I Was an Adventuress 1940: Chad Hanna 1942: Roxie Hart 1942: The Pied Piper 1942: Life Begins at Eight-Thirty 1943: The Moon Is Down | 1943: Holy Matrimony 1944: Casanova Brown 1945: The Woman in the Window 1946: The Dark Mirror 1947: The Senador Was Indiscreet 1948: Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid 1949: Everybody Does It 1950: Three Came Home 1950: The Gunfighter 1950: The Mudlark 1951: The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel 1952: Phone call from a stranger 1952: We're Not Married! 1952: My Cousine Rachel 1953: How to Marry a Millionaire 1954: Night People 1954: Black Widow 1955: How to Be Very, Very Popular 1957: Oh, Men! Oh, Women! 1957: The Three Faces of Eve 1959: The Man Who Understood Women |

#### Director

* 1954: Night People
* 1954: Black Widow
* 1955: How to Be Very, Very Popular
* 1956: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
* 1957: Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
* 1957: The Three Faces of Eve
* 1959: The Man Who Understood Women
* 1960: The Angel Wore Red

## Premis i nominacions
### Nominacions

* 1941: Oscar al millor guió adaptat per El raïm de la ira
* 1944: Oscar al millor guió adaptat per Holy Matrimony
* 1956: Palma d'Or per The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

## Referències

* ↑ «filmografia de Nunnally Johnson». IMdb.
* ↑ «Nunnally Johnson,premis». The New York Times.
* ↑ «biografia de Nunnally Johnson». The New York Times.