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Frank S. Nugent
Highest Rated: 100% Wagon Master (1950)
Lowest Rated: 54% Donovan's Reef (1963)
Birthday: May 27, 1908
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Frank S. Nugent began his career with The New York Times as a reporter in 1929, before succeeding Andre Senwald as the paper's motion picture editor and critic in 1936. His reviews often turned on a clever phrase, or a pun, which stung or delighted those it affected, but generally illuminated the point and made for entertaining reading. A string of barbs unfavorable to 20th Century-Fox caused that studio to cancel their advertising for six months in 1939, costing the Times $50,000. When Darryl F. Zanuck lured "the assassin" to Hollywood in 1940 to work for the studio, cynics on both coasts considered it a case of "if you can't fire him, hire him."
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 60% | Saturday Morning | Producer | - | 2007 |
| 54% | 75% | Donovan's Reef | Writer | - | 1963 |
| 83% | 52% | Two Rode Together | Screenwriter | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | Gunman's Walk | Screenwriter | - | 1958 |
| 86% | 81% | The Last Hurrah | Screenwriter | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 60% | The Rising of the Moon | Screenwriter | - | 1957 |
| 94% | 88% | The Searchers | Writer | - | 1956 |
| 78% | 61% | The Tall Men | Screenwriter | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | 18% | The Paratrooper | Screenwriter | - | 1953 |
| 77% | 78% | Angel Face | Screenwriter | - | 1952 |
| 91% | 91% | The Quiet Man | Screenwriter | - | 1952 |
| 100% | 67% | Wagon Master | Screenwriter | - | 1950 |
| 92% | 79% | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | Writer | - | 1949 |
| 83% | 77% | 3 Godfathers | Screenwriter | - | 1948 |
| 100% | 82% | Fort Apache | Writer | - | 1948 |