Claude Binyon (October 17, 1905 Chicago, Illinois â€" February 14,
1978 Glendale, California) was a screenwriter and director. His genres
were comedy, musicals, and romances.As a Chicago-based journalist for
the Examiner newspaper, he became city editor of the show business
trade magazine Variety in the late 1920s. According to Robert Landry,
who worked at Variety for 50 years including as managing editor,
Binyon came up with the famous 1929 stock market crash headline, "Wall
Street Lays An Egg." (However, writer Ken Bloom ascribes the headline
to Variety publisher Sime Silverman.)He switched from writing about
movies for Variety to screenwriting for the Paramount Studio with
1932's If I Had A Million; his later screenwriting credits included
The Gilded Lily (1935), Sing You Sinners (1938), and Arizona (1940).
Throughout the 1930s, Binyon's screenplays were often directed by
Wesley Ruggles, including the "classic" True Confession (1938).
Fourteen feature films by Ruggles had screenplays by Binyon. Claude
Binyon was also the scriptwriter for the second series of the Bing
Crosby Entertains radio show (1934-1935).In 1948, Binyon made his
directorial bow with The Saxon Charm (1948), for which he also wrote
the screenplay. He went on to write and direct the low-key comedy noir
Stella (1950), Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), Aaron Slick of Pun'kin
Crick (1952), and the Clifton Webb farce Dreamboat (1952). He
directed, but didn't write, Family Honeymoon (1949) as well as Bob
Hope's sole venture into 3-D, Here Come the Girls (1953).
1978 Glendale, California) was a screenwriter and director. His genres
were comedy, musicals, and romances.As a Chicago-based journalist for
the Examiner newspaper, he became city editor of the show business
trade magazine Variety in the late 1920s. According to Robert Landry,
who worked at Variety for 50 years including as managing editor,
Binyon came up with the famous 1929 stock market crash headline, "Wall
Street Lays An Egg." (However, writer Ken Bloom ascribes the headline
to Variety publisher Sime Silverman.)He switched from writing about
movies for Variety to screenwriting for the Paramount Studio with
1932's If I Had A Million; his later screenwriting credits included
The Gilded Lily (1935), Sing You Sinners (1938), and Arizona (1940).
Throughout the 1930s, Binyon's screenplays were often directed by
Wesley Ruggles, including the "classic" True Confession (1938).
Fourteen feature films by Ruggles had screenplays by Binyon. Claude
Binyon was also the scriptwriter for the second series of the Bing
Crosby Entertains radio show (1934-1935).In 1948, Binyon made his
directorial bow with The Saxon Charm (1948), for which he also wrote
the screenplay. He went on to write and direct the low-key comedy noir
Stella (1950), Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), Aaron Slick of Pun'kin
Crick (1952), and the Clifton Webb farce Dreamboat (1952). He
directed, but didn't write, Family Honeymoon (1949) as well as Bob
Hope's sole venture into 3-D, Here Come the Girls (1953).
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