Parker Morell(1906-1943)
- Writer
Alfred Parker Morell was an American author and screenwriter. He is
probably best remembered as the author of "Diamond Jim Brady" (1935)
and "Lillian Russell, the Era of Plush" (1940). A native of Bogota, New
Jersey, Morell attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
the Columbia School of Journalism before embarking on his writing
career. He went on to write for The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan
and the Ladies Home Journal and for a brief period in the mid 1930s,
Universal Pictures in Hollywood. Morell died at the age of 36 after
undergoing an operation at Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia. He was
survived by his wife, the former Madeleine Bladon.