John Milton Bright (January 1, 1908 – September 14, 1989)[1] was an American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
Bright was born in Baltimore and worked with Ben Hecht as a newspaper journalist in Chicago.
With fellow journalist Kubec Glasmon, Bright co-wrote a series of stories adapted as screenplays.
The most notable of these, Beer and Blood, became the 1931 film The Public Enemy starring James Cagney.
As with other founders and members of the Screen Writers Guild, Bright was targeted in the early 1950s by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and put on the Hollywood blacklist.