James Bridie  

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James Bridie (3 January 1888 in Glasgow – 29 January 1951 in Edinburgh) was the pseudonym of a Scottish playwright, screenwriter and physician whose real name was Osborne Henry Mavor.

Bridie worked with the director Alfred Hitchcock in the late 1940s. They worked together on:

• The Paradine Case (1947). Bridie originally wrote the screenplay, and Ben Hecht contributed some additional dialogue. But due to casting, the characters had to be changed. So David O. Selznick had to write another script.
• Under Capricorn (1949)
• Stage Fright (1950)

Bibliography

• Some Talk of Alexander (1926), book, his experiences as an army doctor
• The Sunlight Sonata or To Meet the Seven Deadly Sins (1928), assisted by John Brandane<ref name=":0" /> and published under the pseudonym Mary Henderson, directed by Tyrone Guthrie
• The Switchback (1929), with James Brandane
• What It Is to Be Young (1929)
• The Girl Who Did Not Want to Go to Kuala Lumpur (1930)
• The Pardoner's Tale (1930)
• Tobias and the Angel (1930)<ref>Kenneth Hardacre (1960) James Bridie's "Tobias and the Angel" (Chosen Eng. Texts Notes), Andrew Brodie Publications, London – Study Guide for students of the play</ref><ref name=":0" />
• The Amazed Evangelist (1931)
• The Anatomist (1931) (dramatisation of the historical Burke and Hare murders)<ref name=":0" />
• The Dancing Bear (1931)
• Jonah and the Whale (1932)<ref name=":0" />
• A Sleeping Clergyman (1933)<ref name=":0" />
• Marriage Is No Joke (1934)
• Colonel Witherspoon or The Fourth Way of Greatness (1934)
• Mary Read (with Claude Gurney) (1934)
• The Tragic Muse (1934)
• The Black Eye (1935)
• Storm in a Teacup (Adaptation) (1936) Based on Bruno Frank's Sturm im Wasserglas
• Susannah and the Elders (1937)<ref name=":0" />
• The King of Nowhere (1938)
• Babes in the Wood (1938)
• The Last Trump (1938)
• The Kitchen Comedy Radio play, (1938)
• The Letter Box Rattles (1938)
• One Way of Living (1939) – Autobiography<ref>Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. (1940) Library of Congress</ref><ref name=":0" />
• What Say They? (1939)
• The Sign of the Prophet Jonah Radio play (1942) Adaption of Jonah and the Whale
• The Dragon and the Dove or How the Hermit Abraham Fought the Devil for His Niece (1943)
• Jonah 3 (1942) Revised version of Jonah and the Whale
• Holy Isle (1942)<ref name=":0" />
• A Change for the Worse 1943
• Mr. Bolfry 1943<ref name=":0" />
• Tedious and Brief (1944)
• Lancelot 1945<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Paradise Enow 1945
• The Pyrate's Den (1946) unpublished, written under the pseudonym Archibald P. Kellock
• Gog and Magog 1948
• It Depends What You Mean 1949
• The Forrigan Reel Ballad opera 1949
• Dr. Angelus 1949
• John Knox 1949
• Daphne Laureola 1949<ref>Billboard Vol.62, No.39 (30 Sep 1950)</ref><ref name=":0" />
• The Golden Legend of Shults 1949 - (adapted to There Was a Crooked Man (film) by Norman Wisdom
• Mr. Gillie 1950
• The Queen's Comedy 1950<
• Folly to be Wise 1952
• The Baikie Charivari or The Seven Prophets 1953<ref name=":0" />
• Meeting at Night (With Archibald Batty) 1954
• (Adaptation) The Wild Duck. Based on Vildanden by Henrik Ibsen
• (Adaptation) Liliom Based on Ferenc Molnár's play of the same name
• (Adaptation) Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
• (Adaptation) The Misanthrope Based on Le Misanthrope by Molière