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Jack Moffitt (screenwriter)
Jack Moffitt (May 8, 1901 – December 4, 1969), also credited at John C. Moffitt, was an American screenwriter and film critic. Employed by Universal Studios in the 1930s, he wrote screenplays for a number of minor films. Over the years he wrote film reviews for The Kansas City Star, Esquire, and The Hollywood Reporter. He was an ardent anti-Communist, who contributed to the Hollywood blacklist by testifying against others in the film industry for the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee.
John Charles Moffitt, later credited as John C. Moffitt and Jack Moffitt, was born on 8 May 1901 in Missouri.
Moffitt worked as a motion picture editor for the Kansas City Star in the 1920s, before moving to Hollywood in 1930 to work at Universal Studios.
Moffitt first co-wrote the play It Can't Happen Here with Sinclair Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Lewis. It was "especially adapted for Federal Theatre by the author and J. C. Moffitt", in a production directed by Louis M. Simon produced at the Federal Theatre of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1936, and the play was put on at various other theatres around the country, although the posters do not all credit Moffitt as a co-writer. The play was also produced on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre from October 26, 1936 to January 1937, staged by Vincent Sherman. He was credited as John C. Moffitt for this production.
He wrote the screenplay for the 1937 film Mountain Music, for which he was credited as John. C. Moffitt. He wrote the script for Paramount's 1939 melodrama Our Leading Citizen, about industrial action, that was critical of both the "greedy capitalists" and the striking workers.
However he was described as a "journeyman" who never quite rose to the top tier of his profession as a screenwriter.
In the 1940s he was also a film critic for Esquire magazine. However, two days after testifying for House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), he was fired from his post. Apart from a credit on The Story of Will Rogers (1952), he did no more screenwriting, instead working as a freelance writer.
In 1955, he was hired by Billy Wilkerson as a film reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter, where he stayed for eight years. and later also for The Kansas City Star. He is credited as both Jack and John C. Moffitt for the Kansas City Star.
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Jack Moffitt (screenwriter)
Jack Moffitt (May 8, 1901 – December 4, 1969), also credited at John C. Moffitt, was an American screenwriter and film critic. Employed by Universal Studios in the 1930s, he wrote screenplays for a number of minor films. Over the years he wrote film reviews for The Kansas City Star, Esquire, and The Hollywood Reporter. He was an ardent anti-Communist, who contributed to the Hollywood blacklist by testifying against others in the film industry for the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee.
John Charles Moffitt, later credited as John C. Moffitt and Jack Moffitt, was born on 8 May 1901 in Missouri.
Moffitt worked as a motion picture editor for the Kansas City Star in the 1920s, before moving to Hollywood in 1930 to work at Universal Studios.
Moffitt first co-wrote the play It Can't Happen Here with Sinclair Lewis, based on the novel of the same name by Lewis. It was "especially adapted for Federal Theatre by the author and J. C. Moffitt", in a production directed by Louis M. Simon produced at the Federal Theatre of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1936, and the play was put on at various other theatres around the country, although the posters do not all credit Moffitt as a co-writer. The play was also produced on Broadway at the Adelphi Theatre from October 26, 1936 to January 1937, staged by Vincent Sherman. He was credited as John C. Moffitt for this production.
He wrote the screenplay for the 1937 film Mountain Music, for which he was credited as John. C. Moffitt. He wrote the script for Paramount's 1939 melodrama Our Leading Citizen, about industrial action, that was critical of both the "greedy capitalists" and the striking workers.
However he was described as a "journeyman" who never quite rose to the top tier of his profession as a screenwriter.
In the 1940s he was also a film critic for Esquire magazine. However, two days after testifying for House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), he was fired from his post. Apart from a credit on The Story of Will Rogers (1952), he did no more screenwriting, instead working as a freelance writer.
In 1955, he was hired by Billy Wilkerson as a film reviewer for The Hollywood Reporter, where he stayed for eight years. and later also for The Kansas City Star. He is credited as both Jack and John C. Moffitt for the Kansas City Star.