Jo Swerling

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Born: 4/18/1893

Biography: A refugee of the Russian Czarist regime, Joseph "Jo" Swerling grew up on New York's lower East Side, where he sold newspapers to help support his family. Swerling moved up the journalist ladder to become a newspaper and magazine writer in the early '20s, then launched a prol …

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Forbidden [Movie]

2007

Dirigible [Movie]

2007

Blood and Sand [Movie]

2007

Shopworn [Movie]

2005

OtherAll Other Credits

A Lady Takes a Chance [Movie]

2009

The Music Goes 'round [Movie]

1936

Behind the Mask [Movie]

1932

Hell's Island [Movie]

1930

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Movie

1942
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Best Screenplay
Pride of the Yankees

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