Biography
Richard Flournoy was an American screenwriter and playwright. He was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, attended Ouachita Baptist University, and served in the First World War. After attempting a singing career, he wrote several plays that reached Broadway in the early 1930s, including the comedy Fly By Night and the dramas Come What May and Ladies’ Money.
Flournoy moved to Los Angeles in 1934 and began writing film scripts, specialising in comedies. He had a long association with Columbia Pictures, contributing screenplays to the Blondie series and other films such as A Night to Remember (1942). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for The More the Merrier (1943), shared with Lewis R. Foster, Frank Ross and Robert Russell.
