Maurice A. Hanline

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| birth_date = June 6, 1895

| birth_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

| death_date = September 1964

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screenwriter

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Maurice A. Hanline (June 6, 1895 - September 1964){{cite web|url=https://www.fold3.com/record/74894129/social-security-death-index-maurice-hanline|title=Maurice Hanline|access-date=December 25, 2020}} was an American playwright, poet, novelist and screenwriter. He worked as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for more than three decades.

Early life

Hanline was born in 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite news |title=M. A. Hanline Rites Today. Baltimore Poet, Novelist Was Living in California |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/376807295/?terms=%22maurice%2Bhanline%22 |accessdate=February 18, 2019 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=September 15, 1964|page=19|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }} He graduated from Baltimore City College.{{cite news |title=M. A. Hanline, Poet, Novelist, Film Writer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/371566196/?terms=%22maurice%2Bhanline%22 |accessdate=February 18, 2019 |work=The Evening Sun |date=September 14, 1964|page=23|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}

Career

Hanline staged his own play, The Woman of Samaria, in Baltimore in 1921.{{cite news |last1=Goetz |first1=George |title=Introducing This Poet And Playwright, Who Is A Philosopher As Well. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/373287534/?terms=%22maurice%2Bhanline%22 |accessdate=February 18, 2019 |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=December 11, 1921|page=71|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }} He worked in publishing in New York City for Horace Liveright in the 1920s, and he became a published poet. In 1930, he began working as a screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Los Angeles. He published his first novel, Years of Indiscretion in 1935. He worked for MGM until his death.

Movies he worked on include Lottery Lover (1935), Four Wives (1939), and Steel Against the Sky (1941).