Alan
Campbell was born in 1904. He worked as an actor before concentrating
on writing. After his marriage to Dorothy
Parker he moved to Hollywood. Over the next five years the couple
worked on fifteen movie scripts including Three
Married Men (1936), Lady Be Careful
(1936), Suzy (1936), A
Star is Born (1937), Trade Winds
(1938), Sweethearts
(1938), Weekend for Three
(1941) and The Little Foxes (1941).
Campbell held left-wing political views and was active in the Hollywood
Anti-Nazi League, Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee and the Motion Picture
Artists Committee to Aid Republican Spain.
After the Second World War the House
of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)investigating the entertainment
industry. The HUAC managed to get a large number of people, including
Campbell and Dorothy Parker, blacklisted.
Alan Campbell died in June, 1963.
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