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Ranald MacDougall (March 10, 1915 – December 12, 1973) was an American screenwriter who scripted such films as Mildred Pierce (1945), The Unsuspected (1947), June Bride (1948), and The Naked Jungle (1954), and shared screenwriting credit for 1963's Cleopatra.
Ranald MacDougall was born on 10 March 1915 in Schenectady, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Mildred Pierce (1945), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) and Cleopatra (1963).
- Writer, Director, Producer
- March 10, 1915
- Ranald MacDougall
- December 12, 1973
Ranald MacDougall was born on 10 March 1915 in Schenectady, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Mildred Pierce (1945), The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) and Cleopatra (1963). He was married to Nanette Fabray and Lucille Margaret Brophy.
- March 10, 1915
- December 12, 1973
Ranald MacDougall was a prolific and versatile writer for radio, film, and television. He collaborated with Alvah Bessie and Lester Cole on Objective, Burma, and received an Oscar nomination for Mildred Pierce.
- Bright Road (1953) Director: Gerald Mayer. Playing the head teacher of an Alabama elementary school, Belafonte made a creditable debut in Gerald Mayer’s charming drama, adapted from a short story by African American author Mary Elizabeth Vroman, which finds Dorothy Dandridge’s schoolteacher helping a wayward pupil.
- Carmen Jones (1954) Director: Otto Preminger. After Bright Road, Dandridge and Belafonte reunited in more spectacular style the following year in Camen Jones, Otto Preminger’s big-screen treatment of Oscar Hammerstein’s all-Black Americanised version of Bizet’s 1875 opera.
- Island in the Sun (1957) Director: Robert Rossen. Belafonte’s final film alongside Dandridge was an ensemble drama directed by Robert Rossen, adapted from the novel by Alec Waugh.
- The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) Director: Ranald MacDougall. Preserved by the BFI National Archive. Belafonte founded his own production company, HarBel, in part to develop projects that would advance African American representation in Hollywood.
Ranald MacDougall is known as an Screenplay, Director, Producer, Writer, Teleplay, and Original Film Writer. Some of his work includes Cleopatra, We're No Angels, Mildred Pierce, Stage Fright, We're No Angels, The Naked Jungle, Objective, Burma!, and Possessed.
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Feb 16, 2010 · Ranald MacDougall's The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959) is a complex and ambitious film that combines the post-apocalyptic science fiction film, and the social problem or message film, to support an anti-segregation agenda.
