Ranald MacDougall

Trekking from his native Upstate New York to the Big Apple, young Ranald MacDougall ushered at Radio City Music Hall. He then sought out work elsewhere in Rockefeller Center as a staff writer for NBC Radio. In 1944, MacDougall was hired by Warner Bros., where he scripted the Joan Crawford "comeback" feature Mildred Pierce, winning an Oscar nomination in the process. Warners promoted him to producer with the innocuous 1948 domestic comedy The Decision of Christopher Blake. A director from 1955, MacDougall is most fondly remembered for his work on 1959's The World, The Flesh and The Devil, which like many of his later projects tackled delicate racial themes. He was among the dozen or so scriptwriters who tried to make lemonade from the 1963 lemon Cleopatra; within five years of this debacle, he was producing made-for-TV films like Jigsaw (1968) and Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970). Ranald MacDougall was married to actress Nanette Fabray.

Highest Rated Movies

Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	Cleopatra 50th Anniversary	Screenwriter	—	2013
No Score Yet	The World, the Flesh and the Devil	Screenwriter Director	—	2000
No Score Yet	Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County	Producer Director Screenwriter	—	1970
No Score Yet	Jigsaw	Producer	—	1968
No Score Yet	Fame Is the Name of the Game	Screenwriter Producer	—	1966
61%	Cleopatra	Screenwriter	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Subterraneans	Director	—	1960
No Score Yet	Man on Fire	Screenwriter Director	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Mountain	Screenwriter	—	1956
No Score Yet	Queen Bee	Director Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	We're No Angels	Screenwriter	—	1955
No Score Yet	Secret of the Incas	Screenwriter	—	1954
86%	The Naked Jungle	Screenwriter	—	1954
No Score Yet	I'll Never Forget You (The House in the Square) (Man of Two Worlds)	Screenwriter	—	1951
100%	The Breaking Point	Screenwriter	—	1950
90%	Stage Fright	Screenwriter	—	1950
No Score Yet	Bright Leaf	Screenwriter	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Hasty Heart	Screenwriter	—	1949
No Score Yet	June Bride	Screenwriter	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Unsuspected	Screenwriter	—	1947
89%	Possessed	Screenwriter	—	1947
86%	Mildred Pierce	Screenwriter	—	1945
No Score Yet	Objective, Burma!	Screenwriter	—	1945

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