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wanted his brother, Robert Wyler, and
Jessamyn West credited for rewriting the script, but Wilson disputed this. Wyler then was able under the rules of the blacklist to have one of the few films in history credited to no writer at all.
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856:"'Under the table': Michael Wilson and the Screenplay for The Bridge on the River Kwai: for audiences, a screen masterpiece. For its blacklisted screenwriter, a saga of futility and bitterness, in epic proportions."
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was based on a novel by Pierre Boulle. The adaptation was credited to Wilson and Rod
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with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1936 and did post-graduate fellowship work between 1937 and 1939. He taught
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and blacklisted for being a communist. After he was blacklisted, he left for France and worked on scripts for the
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In 1995, Wilson was credited by the academy's board of directors with an
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in 1941; the couple had two daughters. Zelma's sister, Sylvia, was married to another blacklisted screenwriter,
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Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Motion Picture Screenplay
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Wilson continued to write screenplays, including for
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United States Marine Corps personnel of World War II
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Finding Aid for the Michael Wilson Papers, 1942-1977
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349:(1962) for Spiegel and Lean again.
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755:"Oscars Go to Writers of 'Kwai'"
735:Michael Wilson papers, 1942-1977
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609:The Bridge on the River Kwai
482:. Michael Wilson died of a
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370:The Bridge on the River Kwai
310:The Bridge on the River Kwai
248:. The movie was directed by
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699:Michael Wilson was born in
416:Michael Wilson was awarded
409:(1969). His screenplay for
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418:Writers Guild of America
246:Grant County, New Mexico
186:Return from World War II
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474:Michael Wilson married
130:Wilson was credited on
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262:National Film Registry
3026:Christopher McQuarrie
1773:Tarell Alvin McCraney
814:Merck, Mandy (2007).
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368:worked separately on
197:It's a Wonderful Life
16:American screenwriter
2367:Jean-Claude Carrière
2308:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
2276:Donald Ogden Stewart
2007:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1791:, David Rabinowitz,
1701:Geoffrey S. Fletcher
1534:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1482:Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1363:Francis Ford Coppola
1355:William Peter Blatty
1343:Francis Ford Coppola
1136:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1128:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1024:Donald Ogden Stewart
790:Caballero, Raymond.
133:The Men in Her Life
114:. He graduated from
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3187:Edgar Award winners
2883:Lorenzo Semple, Jr.
2804:Stirling Silliphant
1813:Christopher Hampton
1502:Christopher Hampton
1490:Bernardo Bertolucci
1303:Stirling Silliphant
1008:George Bernard Shaw
988:Norman Reilly Raine
628:(1958) (uncredited)
601:Friendly Persuasion
596:(1955) (uncredited)
588:(1954) (uncredited)
580:(1954) (uncredited)
548:(1946) (uncredited)
505:The Men in Her Life
387:Return to Hollywood
354:Friendly Persuasion
352:His screenplay for
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258:Library of Congress
213:(1951), and won an
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43:McAlester, Oklahoma
3107:SĂ©bastien Japrisot
3103:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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2996:Donald E. Westlake
2733:Harold Jacob Smith
2711:John Michael Hayes
2403:John Michael Hayes
2201:Melville Shavelson
1566:Billy Bob Thornton
1000:Cecil Arthur Lewis
802:Planet of the Apes
798:Planet of the Apes
773:"Here and There,"
760:The New York Times
753:(March 16, 1985).
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641:Lawrence of Arabia
617:The Two-Headed Spy
585:They Were So Young
553:A Place in the Sun
488:Los Angeles County
433:Lawrence of Arabia
411:Planet of the Apes
400:Planet of the Apes
346:Lawrence of Arabia
341:Dino De Laurentiis
324:The Two-Headed Spy
284:They Were So Young
210:A Place in the Sun
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1064:Philip G. Epstein
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569:Salt of the Earth
241:Salt of the Earth
180:U.S. Marine Corps
126:Early Screenplays
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