Harlan Thompson

Harlan Thompson was an American theatre director, screenwriter, lyricist, film director, and film and television producer. He wrote the Broadway hit Little Jessie James , and several other Broadway musicals. He moved to Hollywood, where he was in turn a writer, director and producer.

Harlan Thompson was born in Hannibal, Missouri, onSeptember 1890. He went to high school in Kansas City, Missouri, and then attended the University of Kansas. He studied chemical engineering. Thompson became a reporter and editor for The Kansas City Star and Kansas City Post. During World War I he was in the 167th Aero Squadron of the American Expeditionary Forces. After the war he worked for the New York World.

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