HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST (original) (raw)
HARRY BEHN DEAD; AN EARLY SCENARIST
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Sept. 10, 1973
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Harry Behn, a scenarist and author of children's books, died Wednesday on a trip to Seville, Spain. He was 74 years old and lived in Greenwich, Conn.
Mr. Behri was scenarist for (King Vidor's 1925 silent film “The Big Parade,” which they wrote in five days in a Pullman car going from New York to California. In the nineteentwenties and early thirties, Mr. Behn wrote continuities for “The Crowd” and for “Hell's Angels.”
His children's books included “Cricket Songs.” translations of Japanese poetry, “Chrysalis,” “The Two Uncles of Pablo,” “The Faraway Lurs,” “The Painted Cave” and “Roderick.”
Mr. Behn, who was a graduate of Harvard University, joined the faculty of the University of Arizona in the mid‐thirties. He was professor of English and ran the educational radio programs there until 1947.
Surviving are his widow, the former Alice Lawrence; two sons, Peter and Prescott; a daughter, Mrs, Pamela Dodge, and nine grandchildren.
Other Obituaries On. Page 24.
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