Trekking from his native Upstate New York to the Big Apple, young Ranald MacDougall ushered at Radio City Music Hall. He then sought out work elsewhere in Rockefeller Center as a staff writer for NBC Radio. In 1944, MacDougall was hired by Warner Bros., where he scripted the Joan Crawford "comeback" feature Mildred Pierce, winning an Oscar nomination in the process. Warners promoted him to producer with the innocuous 1948 domestic comedy The Decision of Christopher Blake. A director from 1955, MacDougall is most fondly remembered for his work on 1959's The World, The Flesh and The Devil, which like many of his later projects tackled delicate racial themes. He was among the dozen or so scriptwriters who tried to make lemonade from the 1963 lemon Cleopatra; within five years of this debacle, he was producing made-for-TV films like Jigsaw (1968) and Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (1970). Ranald MacDougall was married to actress Nanette Fabray.
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Magic Carpet
Screenwriter |
1971 | |||
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The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1970 | |||
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A Woman for Charlie
Director |
1969 | |||
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Jigsaw
Producer |
1968 | |||
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Producer, Screenwriter |
1966 | |||
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Cleopatra
Screenwriter |
1963 | |||
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Go Naked in the World
Director, Screenwriter |
1961 | |||
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The Subterraneans
Director |
1960 | |||
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The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
Director, Screenwriter |
1959 | |||
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Man on Fire
Director, Screenwriter |
1957 | |||
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The Mountain
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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Queen Bee
Director, Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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We're No Angels
Screenwriter |
1955 | |||
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Secret of the Incas
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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The Naked Jungle
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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I'll Never Forget You
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell
Screenwriter |
1951 | |||
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Bright Leaf
Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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Stage Fright
Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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The Breaking Point
Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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The Hasty Heart
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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June Bride
Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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The Decision of Christopher Blake
Producer, Screenwriter |
1948 | |||
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Possessed
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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The Unsuspected
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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Mildred Pierce
Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Objective, Burma!
Screenwriter |
1945 |




