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Rear Window Screenwriter John Michael Hayes
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Screenwriter for Hitchcock's "Rear Window" dies
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Screenwriter John Michael Hayes, nominated
for an Academy Awards for the classic Alfred Hitchcock film "Rear
Window" and for "Peyton Place," has died at age 89.
Hayes, who was involved in Dartmouth College's film studies
program, died of natural causes Wednesday at a retirement community
in Hanover, John Wilson of Rand Wilson Funeral Home said Monday.
Hayes also had collaborated with Hitchcock on "To Catch a
Thief," "The Trouble with Harry" and the 1956 remake of
Hitchcock's "The Man Who Knew Too Much." His most recent writing
credit is the 1998 film "Iron Will."
Hayes was born in Worcester, Mass., in 1919. He got his start
writing for newspapers and radio. After paying his way through
school at Massachusetts State College, Hayes moved to Hollywood.
There he landed a job writing for Lucille Ball's radio program "My
Favorite Husband" and the serial drama "The Adventures of Sam
Spade."
His radio work caught the attentions of Universal Studios, which
hired him as a screenwriter in the early 1950s.
Hayes donated his collection of scripts, photographs, letters
and clippings from his Hollywood career to Dartmouth College in
1990.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
APTV 11-24-08 1248EST
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Great, great movie.
Thanks Duster.
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RIP, thanks for all the rockin' movies!!!
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He was a genius! Rest in peace.
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