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Dale Van Every
Dale Van Every (July 23, 1896 - May 28, 1976) was an American writer, film producer and studio executive.
Born in Van, Michigan, to Wilbert and Estella (Palmer) Van Every from Pet...view moreDale Van Every (July 23, 1896 - May 28, 1976) was an American writer, film producer and studio executive.
Born in Van, Michigan, to Wilbert and Estella (Palmer) Van Every from Petoskey, Michigan, he graduated from a San Bernardino, California-area high school in 1914 and attended Stanford University.
During his junior year, when the United States entered World War I, he enlisted with the Stanford ambulance unit and served overseas for around three years, initially with the ambulance corps, and later as a commissioned officer in the Convois Automobiles.
He graduated from Stanford in 1920 and went to work for the United Press news agency, first in New York, then around 1921, as a bureau chief in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He eventually quit and pursued writing.
With Morris DeHaven Tracy, he wrote a biography of Charles Lindbergh which was published in 1927, the year Lindbergh made his famous solo trip across the Atlantic. He also wrote a number of historical non-fiction works, including a four-volume series on the American frontier experience. His first novel, Telling the World, was made into a 1928 movie of the same name, starring William Haines as a journalist who becomes involved in a murder.
Van Every went to Hollywood to work on the film and began writing screenplays. Along with Marc Connelly and John Lee Mahin, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) for Captains Courageous (1937). He was one of seven Universal Pictures studio executives who worked for Carl Laemmle and his son Julius (Carl Jr.) Laemmle during the golden age of Universal-Laemmle ownership. Later, he also produced some films.
He married fellow Stanford graduate Ellen Mein Calhoun in April 1922. The couple had two children before they divorced in July 1935.
Van Every died in Santa Barbara, California, in 1976, aged 79.view less