Jerome Cady
Writer · Died November 7, 1948, aged 45 · Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jerome Cady (August 15th, 1903 – November 7th, 1948) was a Hollywood screenwriter. What promised to be a lucrative and successful career as a film writer - graduating up from Charlie Chan movies in the late 1930s to such well respected war films as Guadalcanal Diary (1943), a successful adaptation of Forever Amber (1947) and the police procedural Call Northside 777 (1948) - came to an abrupt end when he died of a sleeping pill overdose onboard his yacht off Catalina Island in 1948. At the time of his death he was doing a treatment for a documentary on the Northwest Mounted Police. There was a Masonic funeral service for him. He received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Wing and a Prayer in 1944. A native of West Virginia, Cady started as a newspaper copy boy. He was later a reporter with the Los Angeles Record, before joining the continuity staff of KECA-KFI, Los Angeles in June 1932. He spent time in New York in the 1930s with Fletcher & Ellis Inc., as its director of radio, returning to Los Angeles in 1936. He joined 20th Century Fox in 1940, having previously been employed at RKO between radio jobs.
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- August 15, 1903
- November 7, 1948 (aged 45)
- Cabell County, West Virginia, USA
- Writer
- 11 on MovieCove · 37 credits in all
Where can I watch Jerome Cady's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 1 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, on Tubi (1).
Subscription and free streaming for Jerome Cady's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
37 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.
Cry Danger (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)
Sand (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1949)
Call Northside 777(1948)
Midcredits score: 91st percentile of all films
Those Who Came Back(1948)
Midcredits score: 42nd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Thunder in the Valley(1947)
Midcredits score: 83rd percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
Forever Amber(1947)
Midcredits score: 60th percentile of all films
Man Alive (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1945)
Roger Touhy, Gangster (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
The Purple Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
Wing and a Prayer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1944)
Guadalcanal Diary(1943)
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Silver Skates (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
What's Cookin'? (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1942)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
They Met in Argentina(1941)
Midcredits score: 9th percentile of all films
Repent at Leisure (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
Play Girl(1941)
Midcredits score: 57th percentile of all films
The Saint In Palm Springs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)
Cross-Country Romance (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
Anne of Windy Poplars (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
You Can't Fool Your Wife (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
The Marines Fly High (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
Laddie (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)
Two Thoroughbreds (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
Sued for Libel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
Full Confession (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
Five Came Back(1939)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
Winner Take All (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
Inside Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
The Arizona Wildcat (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)
Time Out for Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)
Mr. Moto's Gamble(1938)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Island in the Sky (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all films
The Great Hospital Mystery (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1937)
Charlie Chan on Broadway(1937)
Midcredits score: 84th percentile of all films