Biography
Ernest Vajda was a Hungarian screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Born Ernő Vajda on 27 May 1886 in Pápa, Austria-Hungary, he moved with his family to Komárno after his father's death and later studied at the College of the Benedictine Monks in Pápa. He wrote his first play in 1909 and had several produced in Hungary before emigrating to the United States in 1924.
Vajda worked as a contract writer for Paramount Pictures from the mid-1920s and collaborated on several films with director Ernst Lubitsch. His credits include the story for The Love Parade (1929) and the screenplay, co-written with Samson Raphaelson, for The Smiling Lieutenant (1931). He later worked at MGM and contributed to The Merry Widow (1934) and Broken Lullaby (1932). Vajda died on 3 April 1954 in Woodland Hills, California.
