Hugh Stanislaus Stange

Hugh Stanislaus Stange (1894–1966) was an American playwright and screenwriter known for what was once described as a "drab realism" in melodramas and crime stories in the 1920s and 1930s.

According to Theatre Magazine, Stange's plays at this time were influenced by the early work of Eugene O'Neill.

In 1930 he wrote and produced The Long Road, about a soldier in World War I whose wife has a child by another man while he is fighting in France.

False Dreams, Farewell (1933) was a portmanteau drama in the manner of Grand Hotel, set on board a Titanic-like cruise-liner that was destined to sink on its maiden voyage.

Stange also wrote a number of crime-based dramas including Fogbound and Headquarters (subtitled "the dramatization of the hidden police records in a famous crime").