- Joseph Farnham
Joseph White Farnham (
December 2 1884 –June 2 1931 ) was an Americanplaywright and an Academy Award-winningfilm writer andfilm editor of thesilent movie era to the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of theAcademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . He was born inConnecticut .Farnham got his start in film through his business relationship with
theatre empresarios Gustave andDaniel Frohman who ownedThe Frohman Amusement Corp. . "The Big Parade " is probably the most famous of his works adapted to film. In the1st Academy Awards of 1929, nominees could be considered for an Oscar for an award on the basis of multiple films within the year. Joseph won his Best Writing - Title Cards award for the films "Fair Co-Ed ", "Laugh, Clown, Laugh ", and "Telling the World ". This was the only year that an Oscar fortitle cards would be awarded.Joseph Farnham has the sad distinction of being the very first Academy Award-winner to die. He died of a heart attack while living in
Los Angeles ,California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery inGlendale, California .elected filmography
* "The Big House" (1930)
* "The Thirteenth Chair " (1929)
* "The Unholy Night " (1929)
* "The Cameraman" (1928)
* "Laugh, Clown, Laugh " (1928)
* "Alias Jimmy Valentine " (1928)
* "The Trail of '98 " (1928)
* "London After Midnight" (1927)
* "Slide, Kelly, Slide " (1927)
* "The Red Mill" (1927)
* "The Show" (1927)
* "The Road to Mandalay" (1926)
* "The Blackbird " (1926)
* "The Big Parade " (1925)
* "Greed" (1924)External links
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