Ward Morehouse

Ward Morehouse (November 24, 1895 – December 7, 1966) was an American theater critic, newspaper columnist, playwright, and author.

In the early 1930s Morehouse worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter for the films Central Park (1932), Big City Blues (1932) (both starring Joan Blondell), and It Happened in New York (1935).

The marriage ended in divorce five years later, as Morehouse was thought to have had numerous infatuations and side relationships with many of his cast members.

[1] Morehouse was a world traveler who drove across the United States over 23 times and visited 80 foreign countries in search of stories and interviews with such personalities as Sergeant Alvin York, Eugene O'Neill, Christopher Fry, H. L. Mencken, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.

The stories he wrote in 1946, called "Report on America", received an award from the Society of the Silurians, a prestigious journalism organization.