George Wells(1909-2000)
- Writer
- Additional Crew
- Producer
The son of vaudevillian Billy K. Wells
graduated from New York University and began as a writer for radio ('The
Jack Pearl Show','Lux Radio Theater'). In 1943, he joined MGM under contract as a screenwriter, rapidly acquiring a reputation for lending a deft touch and inventiveness to light comedies and musicals. Wells won the
Academy Award for Best Original Story and Screenplay for
Designing Woman (1957), a
sophisticated marital comedy starring
Lauren Bacall and
Gregory Peck. He also co-wrote
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
with Harry Tugend, an MGM musical with
Gene Kelly, nominated by the Writer's
Guild of America for an award as Best Written American Musical. He
produced several of
Esther Williams's films,
including
Jupiter's Darling (1955).
George Wells left MGM in 1970, penned a few more TV scripts and in 1982 wrote 'Taurus', described as a "'novel of
erotic horror".
