Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.
[4] After the war, he wrote several short stories, two of which, "Hang It All" (1921) and "Rope" (1923), were published in H. L. Mencken's The Smart Set magazine.
MacArthur was friends with members of the Algonquin Round Table, shared an apartment with Robert Benchley and had an affair with Dorothy Parker.
Their adopted son, James MacArthur, was also an actor, best known for playing Danny "Danno" Williams on the very popular American television series Hawaii Five-O.
Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Story - The Scoundrel (shared with Ben Hecht) (1936) In 1983, MacArthur was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.