DeWitt Bodeen (July 25, 1908 – March 12, 1988) was an American film screenwriter and television writer best known for writing Cat People (1942).
Born Homer DeWitt Bodeen on July 25, 1908, in Fresno, California,[1] he began his career as an actor and wrote more than 20 plays before entering the film business.
[2] He published his first book-length contribution to entertainment history in 1937, Ladies of the Footlights, a slim volume of theater celebrity profiles.
Beginning in the 1950s he moved to television, writing mainly for anthology shows including Robert Montgomery Presents, Climax!, and Schlitz Playhouse of Stars among others.
[c] He wrote one novel, the 1975 gothic roman à clef mystery 13 Castle Walk, which fictionalized the unsolved 1922 murder of film director William Desmond Taylor.