---
name: "Morrie Ryskind"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/morrie-ryskind"
roles: ["Additional dialogue"]
born: "24 August 1895"
died: "24 August 1985"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:38:49.758854+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."
---

# Morrie Ryskind

Additional dialogue. Born 24 August 1895 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Died 24 August 1985.

## Details

- **Work:** Additional dialogue
- **Born:** 24 August 1895, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- **Died:** 24 August 1985
- **Active:** 1937–1940
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 85 (1), 1940s 90 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrie_Ryskind, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323516, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0753452/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10792

## Biography

Morrie Ryskind was an American dramatist, lyricist and screenwriter. He studied at Columbia University and began his career writing for Broadway revues and collaborating with George S. Kaufman on several productions.

Ryskind wrote or co-wrote screenplays for the Marx Brothers films *The Cocoanuts* (1929), *Animal Crackers* (1930) and *A Night at the Opera* (1935), as well as *My Man Godfrey* (1936) and *Stage Door* (1937). He shared a Pulitzer Prize for drama for the 1931 musical *Of Thee I Sing*. He received Academy Award nominations for the screenplays of *My Man Godfrey* and *Stage Door*.

Later in life Ryskind became a conservative political activist and columnist.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1)

- *Stage Door* (1937), Fi1m 85, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/stage-door.md)

### Crew (1) — the average rests on these

- *His Girl Friday* (1940), Fi1m 90, Additional Dialogue — [page](https://film.one/film/his-girl-friday.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

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

- *That's Entertainment, Part II* (1976), Thanks
- *Heartbeat* (1946), Adaptation
- *Where Do We Go from Here?* (1945), Screenplay, Story
- *Claudia* (1943), Writer
- *Louisiana Purchase* (1941), Theatre Play
- *Penny Serenade* (1941), Screenplay
- *His Girl Friday* (1940), Additional Dialogue — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/his-girl-friday.md)
- *Man About Town* (1939), Screenplay, Story
- *Room Service* (1938), Screenplay
- *Stage Door* (1937), Screenplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/stage-door.md)
- *The Luckiest Girl in the World* (1936), Writer
- *My Man Godfrey* (1936), Screenplay
- *A Night at the Opera* (1935), Screenplay
- *Palmy Days* (1931), Story
- *Animal Crackers* (1930), Screenplay, Theatre Play
- *The Cocoanuts* (1929), Screenplay

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 1938: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *Stage Door*
- 1937: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *My Man Godfrey*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1932: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (won), for *Of Thee I Sing*

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

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