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- Birth nameJohn Milton Bright
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- John Bright was born on January 1, 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was a writer, known for The Public Enemy (1931), The Accusing Finger (1936) and Blonde Crazy (1931). He was married to Jeanne Dunne. He died on September 14, 1989 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseJeanne Dunne
- In 1933, Bright was among 10 writers who founded the Screen Writers Guild.
- As a 13-year-old, Bright worked at the Chicago Daily News, where he was the office boy for Ben Hecht.
- Bright met his writing partner, Kubec Glasmon, at the drugstore where Bright worked as a soda jerk. Glasmon owned the drugstore, which was a hangout for many of Chicago's most notorious gangsters. It was there Bright met Al Capone. Bright was present at a banquet at Chicago's Commonwealth Hotel when Capone ordered the murder of two attending Mafiosi who had displeased him. The men were immediately beaten to death with baseball bats in front of Bright, an incident later dramatized in Brian DePalma's "The Untouchables."
- His great granddaughter, Keeley Bright, is an actress and writer.
- A self made man who worships his creator is an egotist.
- The Rebellion of the Hanged (1954) - $5,000 (U.S.)
- The Public Enemy (1931) - $100 /week
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