---
name: "Arthur Hornblow Jr."
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arthur-hornblow-jr"
fi1m_id: "arthur-hornblow-jr"
imdb_id: "nm0394967"
tmdb_id: 138407
wikidata_id: "Q709913"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "15 March 1893"
died: "17 July 1976"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-09-25T07:18:01.718911+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Arthur Hornblow Jr.

## Identity

Arthur Hornblow Jr.

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/arthur-hornblow-jr
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** arthur-hornblow-jr
- **IMDb ID:** nm0394967
- **TMDB ID:** 138407
- **Wikidata ID:** Q709913
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hornblow_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709913, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138407

Producer. Born 15 March 1893 in New York City. Died 17 July 1976.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 15 March 1893, New York City
- **Died:** 17 July 1976
- **Active:** 1931–1957
- **Frequently works with:** [Billy Wilder](https://film.one/person/billy-wilder.md), [Charles Boyer](https://film.one/person/charles-boyer.md), [Charles Laughton](https://film.one/person/charles-laughton.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 7 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 77 (2), 1940s 80 (2), 1950s 82 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 77 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 4 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 5, Crime 3, Mystery 2, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Music 1
- **Screen time:** 13 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $30m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hornblow_Jr., https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q709913, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394967/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/138407

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Gaslight*](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md) (81), [*Oklahoma!*](https://film.one/film/oklahoma.md) (72)
- **Tubi:** [*Witness for the Prosecution*](https://film.one/film/witness-for-the-prosecution.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Arthur Hornblow Jr. (1893–1976) was an American film producer. The son of a writer and editor of Theatre Magazine, he graduated from Dartmouth College and New York Law School before serving in counter-intelligence during the First World War. He began his career as a Broadway producer, with successes including The Cardboard Lover, before moving to Hollywood in 1927 as a production supervisor for Samuel Goldwyn.

At Paramount he produced numerous films, including screwball comedies such as *Easy Living* (1937) and *Midnight* (1939), and gave Billy Wilder his first directing credit on *The Major and the Minor* (1942). He later worked at MGM, producing *Gaslight* (1944) and *The Asphalt Jungle* (1950). As an independent producer in the 1950s he made *Oklahoma!* (1955) and *Witness for the Prosecution* (1957). Four of his films received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. He co-authored several children's books with his wife, the former actress Leonora Schinasi.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Witness for the Prosecution* (1957), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/witness-for-the-prosecution.md)
- *Oklahoma!* (1955), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/oklahoma.md)
- *The Asphalt Jungle* (1950), Fi1m 88, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-asphalt-jungle.md)
- *Gaslight* (1944), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md)
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Fi1m 84, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)
- *Arrowsmith* (1931), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)

## Complete filmography (31)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The War Lover* (1962), Producer
- *Witness for the Prosecution* (1957), Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/witness-for-the-prosecution.md)
- *Oklahoma!* (1955), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/oklahoma.md)
- *Rose Marie* (1954), Producer
- *Remains to Be Seen* (1953), Producer
- *Million Dollar Mermaid* (1952), Producer
- *The Asphalt Jungle* (1950), Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-asphalt-jungle.md)
- *Conspirator* (1949), Producer
- *Desire Me* (1947), Producer
- *The Hucksters* (1947), Producer
- *Week-End at the Waldorf* (1945), Producer
- *Gaslight* (1944), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/gaslight.md)
- *The Heavenly Body* (1944), Producer
- *The Major and the Minor* (1942), Producer
- *Nothing but the Truth* (1941), Producer
- *Hold Back the Dawn* (1941), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/hold-back-the-dawn.md)
- *Arise, My Love* (1940), Producer
- *The Ghost Breakers* (1940), Producer
- *The Cat and the Canary* (1939), Producer
- *Man About Town* (1939), Producer
- *Midnight* (1939), Producer
- *Artists and Models Abroad* (1938), Producer
- *Tropic Holiday* (1938), Producer
- *High, Wide and Handsome* (1937), Producer
- *Easy Living* (1937), Producer
- *Three Married Men* (1936), Producer
- *The Princess Comes Across* (1936), Producer
- *Four Hours to Kill!* (1935), Producer
- *Mississippi* (1935), Producer
- *Ruggles of Red Gap* (1935), Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/ruggles-of-red-gap.md)
- *Arrowsmith* (1931), Executive Producer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/arrowsmith.md)

## Gallery

- ![Arthur Hornblow Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/103053/gallery-7566a72a8421.jpg) Arthur Hornblow Jr. — unknown (Paramount Pictures), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Arthur_Hornblow_Jr.-Paulette_Goddard_in_The_Cat_and_the_Canary.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Photograph of Arthur Hornblow Jr. and his wife Myrna Loy (1936)](https://film.one/media/person/103053/gallery-29c1f40816f1.jpg) Photograph of Arthur Hornblow Jr. and his wife Myrna Loy (1936) — Macfadden Publications, Inc.; no photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Hornblow-Loy-1936.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Myrna Low and Arthur Hornblow attending Invitation to Happiness screening (1939)](https://film.one/media/person/103053/gallery-0b0c5976ddfa.jpg) Myrna Low and Arthur Hornblow attending Invitation to Happiness screening (1939) — MGM, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Myrna_Loy_and_Arthur_Hornblow.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Arthur Hornblow Jr.](https://film.one/media/person/103053/gallery-c13ab556b8fb.jpg) Arthur Hornblow Jr. — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Picture (nominated), for *Witness for the Prosecution*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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