The screenwriters born here — George Seaton and Larry Karaszewski

SEATON 1911–1979 · KARASZEWSKI BORN 1961

George Seaton. George Seaton was born George Edward Stenius in South Bend on 17 April 1911; the family moved to Detroit while he was a child, and the formation — the raised-in-Detroit years, the Jesse Bonstelle stock company, the WXYZ radio work as the voice of the Lone Ranger — is Detroit's, printed at that strength. The writing shelf is Hollywood's and belongs in this section at bibliography size: the screenplay of The Song of Bernadette (1943), which brought his first Academy Award nomination; Miracle on 34th Street (1947), which won him the Academy Award for its screenplay; The Country Girl (1954), which won the second; one Broadway play, But Not Goodbye, which failed on the stage and succeeded as the MGM film The Cockeyed Miracle (1946), with Meredith Willson's Here's Love (1963) drawn from his Miracle screenplay after; and Airport (1970), which brought a final nomination. He presided over both the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 1962 ceremonies. He died at Beverly Hills on 28 July 1979. Seaton is absent from this record's Famous People, an omission the note to this section names, because the birthplace is documented in three standard records and the career is of the first rank.

Larry Karaszewski. Larry Karaszewski was born in South Bend on 20 November 1961 and raised here — the stronger tie, carried on the team's own published biographies: before he left for the University of Southern California he worked as a film critic for an NBC affiliate's nightly news program and wrote and directed Beyond Our Control, a weekly half-hour satirical television show made in this city. At USC he met Scott Alexander, and the partnership's shelf is this section's: Problem Child (1990) and Problem Child 2 (1991); Ed Wood (1994), nominated for the Writers Guild Award; The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), which won the Golden Globe for its screenplay; That Darn Cat (1997); Man on the Moon (1999); Screwed (2000), which Karaszewski also directed; Agent Cody Banks (2003); 1408 (2007); Big Eyes (2014); the television of The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story (2016); and Dolemite Is My Name (2019). The screenplays exist in book form as well — Ed Wood from Faber and Faber, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Man on the Moon from Newmarket Press, Big Eyes from Random House — and the trade award record stands in Awards.

The pointer. Sydney Pollack, this city's most decorated director, stands in Famous People as a director; no writing shelf is documented for him in the records reached, and this section does not build him one.

Sources:

1. Encyclopædia Britannica — George Seaton (born April 17, 1911, South Bend; died July 28, 1979, Beverly Hills), the Oscar-winning screenplays of Miracle on 34th Street and The Country Girl, the presidencies of the Screen Writers Guild and the Academy.
2. Turner Classic Movies, biography — the Song of Bernadette and Airport nominations, the Hersholt award, and the play But Not Goodbye filmed as The Cockeyed Miracle (1946); Writers Guild of America — the Seaton biography and the guild presidency.
3. FX Networks and the Austin Film Festival — the Alexander–Karaszewski biography: Karaszewski born in South Bend on November 20, 1961, and raised there; the NBC-affiliate film criticism and Beyond Our Control before USC; the filmography as printed; the Golden Globe for The People vs. Larry Flynt.