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Jay Dratler was born on 14 September, 1910, is an American screenwriter. Discover Jay Dratler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Born 14 September, 1910
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1910

Jay Dratler (September 14, 1910 – September 25, 1968) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

1920

Born in New York City to a mother originally from Austria, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the late 1920s, then studied at the Sorbonne in France and the University of Vienna, achieving fluency in French and German.

1932

After his return to the United States in 1932, he worked as an editor for a New York publisher and translated the books Goya and Zeppelin from German to English.

1940

He then moved to Hollywood, becoming a successful novelist and rising to prominence as a screenwriter during the classic era of film noir in the 1940s.

He wrote six novels, many screenplays and more than twenty television scripts.

1944

He won an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Call Northside 777, and was an Oscar nominee for the 1944 film noir, Laura.

1948

The 1948 film noir, Pitfall, was based on Dratler's novel of the same title.

1960

Later in life, Dratler became conversant in Spanish, moving to Mexico in the 1960s.

1968

Dratler died of a heart attack in 1968 at the British-American Hospital in Mexico City.

His body was returned to New York.

He was survived by his widow, Berenice, and their two children, a daughter and son.

The latter, Jay Dratler Jr., became a professor at the University of Akron School of Law, specializing in intellectual property law.

Dratler's films as screenwriter, often with collaborators, include: