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Samuel A. Taylor
Thea von Harbou
John Huston
B. Traven
Daphne Du Maurier
Robert E. Sherwood
Buster Keaton
Clyde Bruckman
Orson Welles
Whit Masterson
Carl Mayer
Hermann Sudermann
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Joseph Delteil
Jean C. Havez
Joseph A. Mitchell
Noel Langley
Florence Ryerson
Hal Roach
Sam Taylor
Melchior Lengyel
Edwin Justus Mayer
Robert Riskin
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Margaret Mitchell
Sidney Howard
Lamar Trotti
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Morrie Ryskind
Eric Hatch
Nina Agadzhanova
Hans Janowitz
June Mathis
Erich von Stroheim
Charles R. Jackson
Charles Brackett
Wendell Mayes
John D. Voelker
Ian McLellan Hunter
John Dighton
Peter Stone
Stirling Silliphant
John Ball
Ethel Lina White
Sidney Gilliat
Gene Wilder
Mel Brooks
Henrik Galeen
John A. Russo
George A. Romero
Charles Lederer
Ben Hecht
William Gibson
Salvador Dalí
Luis Buñuel
George Seaton
Valentine Davies
Sonya Levien
Bruno Frank
John Buchan
Charles Bennett
Georges de La Fouchardière
André Mouézy-Éon
D.W. Griffith
Anita Loos
Basil Dickey
George H. Plympton
Ernest Haycox
Dudley Nichols
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Dorothy Clarke Wilson
J.H. Ingraham
Ted Sears
Richard Creedon
Philip Dunne
Richard Llewellyn
Preston Sturges
Alan Jay Lerner
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Joe Grant
Dick Huemer
Borden Chase
Charles Schnee
Eleanore Griffin
Allan Scott
Louis O. Coxe
Robert H. Chapman
John Grey
Lex Neal
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R.C. Sherriff
Ted Wilde
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Carlo Collodi
James Poe
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Jean Vigo
Lenore J. Coffee
Robert Smith
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Harry Essex
Anthony Veiller
Victor Trivas
Irving Berlin
Elmer Rice
Russell Rouse
Clarence Greene
Martin Goldsmith
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Richard Connell
Herman Melville
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Nick Grinde
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Crane Wilbur
Earl Felton
Peter B. Kyne
Wyndham Gittens
Ronald Davidson
Norman S. Hall
John Clifford
Morgan Cox
Zack Mosley
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Walter Ferris
Chester Gould
Barry Shipman
Roy Huggins
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Tatsuhiko Kamoi
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Dale Wasserman
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Robert Harari
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Paul Grimault
Whitfield Cook
Alma Reville
Isobel Lennart
John D. Weaver
Collier Young
Ida Lupino
Josephine Tey
Jacques Companéez
Simon Gantillon
James Agee
Helen Levitt
Russell Hoban
Carol Monpere
Barney A. Sarecky
Wellyn Totman
George Worthing Yates
Edmund Beloin
Irving Elinson
Dorothy Davenport
Jay Dratler
Hal Seeger
Roark Bradford
Marc Connelly
Arnold Bennett
Cheh Chang
Kuang Ni
Kôji Takada
Motohiro Torii
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Masahiro Kakefuda
Takeo Kaneko
Ethel Hill
Wanda Tuchock
Richard Schayer
Frances Hyland
Helen Deutsch
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Lester Pine
Tina Pine
Paul Schofield
Bob Carroll Jr.
Madelyn Davis
Jerome Cady
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Forrest Sheldon
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Maxwell Anderson
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Anne Caldwell
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Myles Wilder
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Raymond L. Schrock
Dean Dillman Jr.
Henry Ney
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