Waldo Salt (October 18, 1914 - March 7, 1987) was a Hollywood screenwriter. In the span of ten years, Salt won Academy Awards for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home, and a nomination for his work on Serpico. October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1914 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Spoiler warning: Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 John Schlesinger film, based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, in which a naïve young Texas cowboy named Joe Buck (Jon Voight) comes to New York City to be a male hustler (a midnight cowboy). There he meets the scraggly Rico... Coming Home is a 1978 film which tells the story of a handicapped Vietnam War veterans difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war. ... Serpico is a 1973 film which tells the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico who turned in his fellow policemen for corruption and how his comrades turned against him. ...

Writing credits

• Coming Home (1978)
• The Day of the Locust (1975)
• Serpico (1973) (screenplay)
• The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
• Midnight Cowboy (1969)
• Wild and Wonderful (1964)
• Flight from Ashiya (1964)
• Taras Bulba (1962)
• The Nurses (1962) TV Series

Salt's career in Hollywood was interrupted when he was blacklisted after refusing to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1951. Coming Home is a 1978 film which tells the story of a handicapped Vietnam War veterans difficulty in re-entering civilian life after his return from the war. ... The Day of the Locust is a 1938 novel by American author Nathanael West, set in Hollywood, California during the Great Depression, depicting the alienation and desperation of a disparate group of individuals whose dreams of success have effectively failed. ... Serpico is a 1973 film which tells the true story of New York City policeman Frank Serpico who turned in his fellow policemen for corruption and how his comrades turned against him. ... Spoiler warning: Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 John Schlesinger film, based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, in which a naïve young Texas cowboy named Joe Buck (Jon Voight) comes to New York City to be a male hustler (a midnight cowboy). There he meets the scraggly Rico... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... A blacklist is a list or register of people who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, or mobility. ... The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was an investigating committee of the United States House of Representatives. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

• M (1951) (additional dialogue)
• The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
• Rachel and the Stranger (1948) (uncredited)
• Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
• Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
• The Wild Man of Borneo (1941)
• The Philadelphia Story (1940) (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) (dialogue uncredited)
• The Shopworn Angel (1938)
• The Bride Wore Red (1937) (uncredited)

M is a 1951 a remake of Fritz Langs M (1931), shifting the action from Berlin to Los Angeles. ... Categories: Movie stubs | 1940 films | AFI 100 Movies | AFI 100 Laughs | AFI 100 Passions | Comedy films | MGM films | Best Picture Oscar Nominee | Best Actor Oscar (film) | Best Actress Oscar Nominee (film) | Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nominee (film) | United States National Film Registry ... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ( 1885) by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) is commonly accounted as the first Great American Novel. ...

Other information

• He graduated from Stanford University at age eighteen.
• He joined the American Communist Party in 1938.
• He was a civilian consultant to the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II.
• He is the father of actress Jennifer Salt.

For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is one of several Marxist-Leninist groups in the United States. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was a government agency created during World War II to consolidate government information services. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

External links

• Waldo Salt (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/salt_w.html) from the American Masters website
• Waldo Salt Papers (http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf000002td), an inventory of papers kept in the UCLA Library
• Waldo Salt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0759029/) at the Internet Movie Database