Georg "George" Froeschel (March 9, 1891 – November 22, 1979) was an Austrian screenwriter best known for Mrs. Miniver, Quentin Durward, and The Story of Three Loves, while working for MGM in the 1940s and 1950s. Before working in film he was a lawyer and journalist.
Austrian screenwriter, the son of a banker. In films from 1921, he moved to the U.S. in 1936. His first job was in the editorial section of a Chicago magazine. He was signed by MGM in 1939 where he worked for the next seventeen, usually in collaboration with other screenwriters, on several important films.
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Former lawyer and journalist.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
I Aim at the Stars
1960
story
Mrs. Miniver
1960
TV Movie earlier screenplay
Me and the Colonel
1958
screenplay
Gaby
1956
earlier screenplay
Quentin Durward
1955
adaptation
Betrayed
1954
screenplay
Rose Marie
1954
screenplay
Never Let Me Go
1953
screenplay
The Story of Three Loves
1953
adaptation - segment "Equilibrium" / written by - segment "Mademoiselle"
Scaramouche
1952
screenplay
The Unknown Man
1951
written by
The Miniver Story
1950
Command Decision
1948
screenplay
They Were Expendable
1945
uncredited
The White Cliffs of Dover
1944
screenplay
Random Harvest
1942
screen play
Mrs. Miniver
1942
screenplay
We Were Dancing
1942
screenplay
The Mortal Storm
1940
screen play
Waterloo Bridge
1940
screen play
Skandal in Baden-Baden
1929
novel
Weib in Flammen
1928
novel
Der Anwalt des Herzens
1927
novella
Nora
1923
writer
Die Geliebte Roswolskys
1921
novel
Der Schlüssel zur Macht
1921
writer
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland
1975
TV Series documentary
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1959
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Comedy
Me and the Colonel (1958)
1943
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Writing, Screenplay
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1949
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Drama
Command Decision (1948)
1949
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene)
$850,000
