Michael Blankfort

The Writers Guild of America, West, in its 1991 restoration of credit for the Broken Arrow screenplay to Maltz, expressed "a strong statement of appreciation for the courage of screenwriter Michael Blankfort" for his action in fronting for Maltz, in which Blankfort "risked being blacklisted himself to help his friend".{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-07-03-ca-1469-story.html|title=Movies July 03, 1991|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=July 10, 2012}} Among his own screenplays were The Juggler (1953) and The Caine Mutiny. He was president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1967 to 1969 and won the Guild's Valentine Davies Award (along with Norman Corwin) in 1972.{{cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1529|title=Valentine Davies Award|publisher=Writers Guild of America, West|accessdate=July 10, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509063330/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1529|archivedate=May 9, 2012}} He also served on the Board of Governors of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1969 to 1971.

Michael Blankfort and his wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort were among the founding members of the Los Angeles Contemporary Art Council, a group of prominent local art collectors connected to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Blankforts donated over 400 pieces of art to the museum, including works by Yves Klein, Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky.{{cite web|url=http://www.lacma.org/mcac-awards|title=MCAC Awards|publisher=Los Angeles County Museum of Art|accessdate=July 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701002333/http://www.lacma.org/mcac-awards|archive-date=July 1, 2011|url-status=dead}}

• "Battle hymn; a play in three acts, prologues and an epilogue". (with Michael Gold) New York, Los Angeles, London: S. French, 1936.
• "The crime". New York: New York Theatre League, 1936.
• "The brave and the blind : a one-act drama". New York: S. French, 1937.
• "A Time to Live". New York: Harcourt Brace, 1943.
• "The Big Yankee: The Life of Carlson of the Raiders". Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1947.
• "Monique: A Drama in Two Acts". (with wife Dorothy Stiles Blankfort) New York: S. French, 1957.
• "An Exceptional Man – A Novel of Incest". New York: Antheneum, 1980.

As screenwriter:

• Blind Alley (1939)
• Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
• Texas (1941)
• Flight Lieutenant (1942)
• An Act of Murder (1948)
• The Dark Past (1948)
• Broken Arrow (1950) (as front for Albert Maltz)
• Halls of Montezuma (1951)
• My Six Convicts (1952)
• Lydia Bailey (1952)
• The Juggler (1953)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954) (additional dialogue)
• Untamed (1955)
• Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
• The Vintage (1957)
• See How They Run (1964)
• The Plainsman (1966)
• A Fire in the Sky (1978)

As associate producer:

• The Juggler (1953)

1953: National Jewish Book Award for The Juggler{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/national-jewish-book-awards/past-winners|title=Past Winners|website=Jewish Book Council|language=en|access-date=January 19, 2020}}

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• [http://catalog.oscars.org/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=64461 Michael Blankfort papers], Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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