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Charles O’Neal

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Book Writer 1904–1996

Charles Eldridge O'Neal (January 6, 1904 – August 29, 1996) was an American film and television screenwriter and novelist.

Also credited on1 work

Three Wishes for Jamie “A New Musical Play”

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In the literature2 passages

  • Based on the 1949 novel The Three Wishes of Jamie McRuin by Charles O’Neal (republished in 1980 as Three Wishes for Jamie ).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Three Wishes for Jamie was based on the award-winning novel The Three Wishes of Jamie McRuin by Charles O’Neal (Ryan’s father). Given that the musical dealt with wishes granted by an Irish fairy queen; that the title character hoped for a son who would speak the Gaelic tongue; that a group of Irish horse traders were important figures in…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Any staging. This name appears in no production cast list we hold — 1,877 of 7,139 people are in that position, most of them writers, composers and designers rather than performers.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — book writer — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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