James Kevin McGuinness

James Kevin McGuinness
Born(1894-12-20)December 20, 1894
Drogheda, Co.Louth,Ireland
DiedDecember 4, 1950(1950-12-04) (aged 56)
New York City, New York, U.S.A.
Years active1927–1950

James Kevin McGuinness (December 20, 1894 – December 4, 1950)[1] was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 36 films between 1927 and 1950. He wrote for The New Yorker magazine. He was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York in 1904. He arrived in Los Angeles in the 1920s at the dawn of the "talkies" era and thereafter worked in the film industry as a writer and later a producer. He later became chief supervisor and executive producer at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[1] He died in New York in 1950 from a heart attack.

  1. ^ a b United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1947). Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (2)). Boston Public Library. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off.