Joseph Moncure March

Joseph Moncure March, American poet/essayist (born July 27, 1899

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New York, New York) (death February 14, 1977 Los Angeles, California). March worked as an editor for The New Yorker in the 1920s. Later, the poet, journalist and screenwriter, moved Hollywood in 1930 to provide additional dialogue for the film Journey's End and more famously, the Howard Hughes classic Hell's Angels. March worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood throughout the 30's and early 40's. March left films to concentrate on his writing. March was best known for his two verse narratives; both The Wild Party (1975), a tale of Manhattan hedonism and the tragic hipsters who indulge in it, and The Set-Up (1949), the story of a washed-up black boxer (changed to a white boxer in the movie), were adapted from narrative poems written by March. His narrative work The Wild Party was briefly banned in Boston after its release. His uncle, General Peyton Conway March, was once chief of staff of the U.S. Army in World War I, his grandfather was the philologist Francis Andrew March.

Related Topics:
February 14 - Los Angeles - The New Yorker - 1930 - Journey's End - Howard Hughes - Hell's Angels - The Wild Party (1975) - The Set-Up (1949) - Chief of staff - World War I

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