Born July 24, 1904· San Francisco, California, USA
† Died August 17, 1977
30Filmography★ 6.4Average rating
Born in San Francisco and a Stanford graduate, Daves entered Hollywood as a prop boy on the 1923 Western The Covered Wagon before serving as a technical advisor and briefly acting in more than a dozen pictures. His transition to screenwriting began at MGM with the early talkie So This Is College, and he later supplied scripts for titles such as Shipmates, Dames, The Petrified Forest, Love Affair (…
