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name: "Ralph Wheelwright"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ralph-wheelwright"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 September 1898"
died: "15 April 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T00:30:13.438307+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."
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# Ralph Wheelwright

Writer. Born 11 September 1898 in Brooklyn. Died 15 April 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 September 1898, Brooklyn
- **Died:** 15 April 1971
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wheelwright, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15841675, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924000/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/135363

## Biography

Ralph Wheelwright (1898–1971) was an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he began his career as a journalist before moving into film publicity at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1920s and 1930s. He joined the studio's writing department in 1943.

Wheelwright received story credit on *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941). He later wrote the story for *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957) and contributed to other films including *Thunder Afloat* (1939) and *These Wilder Years* (1956). He also produced *Two Smart People* (1946) and *Tenth Avenue Angel* (1948).

*Sources: nytimes.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Fi1m 58, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Man of a Thousand Faces* (1957), Story
- *These Wilder Years* (1956), Story
- *Tenth Avenue Angel* (1948), Producer
- *Two Smart People* (1946), Story, Producer
- *Blossoms in the Dust* (1941), Writer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/blossoms-in-the-dust.md)
- *Thunder Afloat* (1939), Story
- *Fast Workers* (1933), as Continuity

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1958: Best Writing, Original Screenplay (nominated), for *Man of a Thousand Faces*

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

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