Nora Johnson (January 31, 1933 – October 5, 2017) was an American author.
24-527: Nora Johnson, daughter of filmmaker Nunnally Johnson and Marion Byrnes, was born in Hollywood , California in 1933. She was educated at the Brearley School , Abbot Academy , and Smith College , from which she graduated in 1954. Her sister was the film editor Marjorie Fowler . Her first novel, The World of Henry Orient [ Wikidata ] , inspired by her experiences at the Brearley School ,
48-629: A Mississippi native. The two were married at the home of Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes in Nyack-on-the-Hudson on February 4, 1940. They had three children. They resided in a mansion located at 625 Mountain Drive in Beverly Hills, California. It was designed by architect Paul R. Williams . Actor Jack Johnson is his grandson. Johnson died of pneumonia in Hollywood in 1977 and was interred in
72-555: A Virginia holding company , gained control of the Central. The financial problems of the parent company forced the CofG into bankruptcy , and it was sold at foreclosure three years later, being reorganized as the Central of Georgia Railway on November 1, 1895. In 1907, railroad magnate and financier E. H. Harriman gained a controlling interest in the railway, and in 1909, sold his interest to
96-665: The Savannah Press , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle , the New York Evening Post and the New York Herald Tribune . He also wrote short stories, and a collection of these stories, titled There Ought to Be a Law , was published in 1930. His first connection with film work was the sale of screen rights to one of his stories in 1927. Johnson asked his editor if he could write film criticism in 1932. When this request
120-629: The Academy Award for Best Screenplay in 1940 for The Grapes of Wrath and the Directors Guild of America Best Director Award in 1956 for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . In 1964, Johnson adapted his daughter Nora Johnson's novel, The World of Henry Orient , into a film of the same title , starring Peter Sellers . His first marriage in 1919 at Trinity Church in Brooklyn Heights,
144-561: The Central of Georgia Railway . His mother founded what later became the PTA in Columbus, and was the first woman to serve on the Muscogee County Board of Education. Johnson Elementary School in Columbus was built and named for her in 1949. Nunnally graduated from Columbus High School in 1915. While living in Columbus in 1919, at 1312 Third Street, Nunnally was a second lieutenant in
168-718: The Illinois Central Railroad , which he also controlled. In 1932, during the Great Depression , the CofG went into receivership , from which it did not emerge until 1948. In 1956, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ("Frisco"), seeking a route to Atlantic Ocean ports, gained control of the CofG, but the Interstate Commerce Commission declined to approve a merger of the two roads, so the Frisco sold its CofG stock to
192-464: The Southern Railway in 1963. At the end of 1956, the CofG operated 1,764 miles (2,839 km) of road and 2,646 miles (4,258 km) of track; that year it reported 3208 million net ton-miles of revenue freight and 73 million passenger-miles. Those totals do not include the 144-mile (232 km) Savannah and Atlanta, the 10-mile (16 km) L&W, the 20-mile (32 km) Wadley Southern or
216-551: The State of Georgia . On April 5, 2012, Norfolk Southern unveiled NS 8101, a GE ES44AC painted in the scheme found on Central of Georgia's diesel locomotives. It was the fourth of 20 units that NS painted in the colors of their predecessors. A number of former properties of Central of Georgia are preserved as historic sites. These include the following, listed on the National Register of Historic Places : This list includes, but
240-628: The Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. * Writer of original story ** Uncredited writer ***Co-producer Central of Georgia Railway The Central of Georgia Railway ( reporting mark CG ) started as the Central Rail Road and Canal Company in 1833. As a way to better attract investment capital, the railroad changed its name to Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia . This railroad
264-465: The field artillery reserve corps of the U.S. Army during World War I . His brother Cecil graduated from Georgia Tech in 1924, married Gene Clair Norris, and moved to Bellingham, Washington, where he was first a gas department superintendent and later a vice president with Puget Sound Power & Light . Johnson began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun ,
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#1732881373034288-601: The "Crescent Limited" until 1977. Into the mid-1950s, the CofG, with the Alabama & Saint Andrews Bay Railroad , operated passenger trains headed for the Gulf Coast resort city Panama City, Florida . Long distance inter-state trains operated on Central of Georgia tracks as part of their itineraries: City of Miami (Chicago-Miami), Southland (Chicago & Cincinnati to St. Petersburg), Flamingo (Cincinnati-Jacksonville) and Seminole (Chicago-Jacksonville). Well into
312-526: The 1960s, CofG trains remained segregated , long after most Southern railroads abolished racial bars following a desegregation order by the Interstate Commerce Commission . Today the Central of Georgia exists only as a paper railroad within the Norfolk Southern Railway group. 42 miles (68 km) of the CofG's former mainline are currently leased by the Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway from
336-636: The 36-mile (58 km) Wrightsville and Tennille. The CofG became a Southern Railway subsidiary on June 17, 1963. In 1971, the Southern formed the Central of Georgia Railroad to merge the Central of Georgia Railway, the Savannah and Atlanta Railway , and the Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad . The famous passenger train, the Nancy Hanks II (1947–1971), ran from Atlanta to Savannah , via Macon . It had
360-542: The Day (1968). He also wrote the 1943 Broadway play The World's Full of Girls . Nunnally Johnson was born on December 5, 1897, in Columbus, Georgia , the elder of two sons born to Johnnie Pearl (née Patrick) and James Nunnally Johnson. He and his younger brother, Cecil Patrick Johnson, were raised in Columbus. Their father was a journeyman mechanic, turned tinsmith and coppersmith, turned pipe and sheetmetal shop superintendent for
384-622: The Window (1944), The Mudlark (1950), The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951), My Cousin Rachel (1952), The Three Faces of Eve (1957), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), and The Dirty Dozen (1967). As a playwright he wrote the books for several Broadway musicals , including the musical revue Shoot the Works (1931), Arthur Schwartz 's Park Avenue (1946), Bob Merrill 's Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), and Jule Styne 's Darling of
408-528: The two added on the end to distinguish it from a short-lived train the Central sal in the 1890s. Another notable train was the Man o' War (1947–1970), a Columbus – Atlanta route, via Newnan . Both of these trains were named after prize-winning racehorses. When Amtrak took control of the Southern Railway's passenger service in 1971, The Southern decided to discontinue the "Nancy Hanks II" but continue operating
432-684: Was constructed to join the Macon and Western Railroad at Macon, Georgia , in the United States, and run to Savannah . This created a rail link from Chattanooga , on the Tennessee River , to seaports on the Atlantic Ocean . It took from 1837 to 1843 to build the railroad from Savannah to the eastern bank of the Ocmulgee River at Macon; a bridge into the city was not built until 1851. The company
456-401: Was denied, he decided to move to Hollywood and work directly in the film industry. Finding work as a scriptwriter, Johnson was hired full-time as a writer by 20th Century-Fox in 1935. He began producing films as well and co-founded International Pictures in 1943 with William Goetz . Johnson also directed several films in the 1950s, including two starring Gregory Peck . He was nominated for
480-471: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Grapes of Wrath and in 1956, he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit . Some of his other notable films include Tobacco Road (1941), The Moon Is Down (1943), Casanova Brown (1944), The Keys of the Kingdom (1944), The Woman in
504-405: Was not specified. Nunnally Johnson Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 – March 25, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and playwright. As a filmmaker, he wrote the screenplays to more than fifty films in a career that spanned from 1927 to 1967. He also produced more than half of the films he wrote scripts for and directed eight of those movies. In 1940 he
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#1732881373034528-1005: Was published in 1956, and was made into a motion picture starring Peter Sellers in 1964. Her influential article Sex and the College Girl , was published in the November 1957 issue of The Atlantic Monthly , discussing attitudes towards sex on American campuses. Johnson's other works include A Step Beyond Innocence (Little, Brown, 1961); Loveletter in the Dead-Letter Office (Delacorte, 1966); Flashback: Nora Johnson on Nunnally Johnson (Doubleday, 1979); You Can Go Home Again: An Intimate Journey (Doubleday, 1982); The Two of Us (Simon & Schuster , 1984); Tender Offer (Simon & Schuster, 1985); Uncharted Places (Simon & Schuster, 1988); Perfect Together (E. P. Dutton, 1991). Johnson died on October 5, 2017, in Dallas , Texas; cause of death
552-538: Was purchased by the Southern Railway in 1963, and subsequently became part of Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982. Despite the similarity between the names, neither the Georgia Central Railway or Georgia Railroad have ties with the Central of Georgia Railway. Over the years, this railroad steadily acquired other railroads by either lease or purchase: In 1888, the Richmond Terminal Company,
576-515: Was to Alice Love Mason, with whom he had one daughter, film editor Marjorie Fowler . Mason was an editor with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Mason and Johnson divorced in 1920. His second marriage was to Marion Byrnes in 1927, also a staff member of the Daily Eagle , with whom he also had a daughter, Nora Johnson . Byrnes's and Johnson's marriage ended in 1938. While filming The Grapes of Wrath , Johnson met his third wife, actress Dorris Bowdon ,
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