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American screenwriter Jack Henley started out at the Vitaphone studios in Brooklyn. Henley scripted a handful of Edgar Bergen-Charlie McCarthy short subjects during the 1934-35 season, and when Vitaphone closed its Flatbush studios in 1939, he moved to the company's Burbank, California headquarters, where he penned such offbeat 2-reelers as Elsa Maxwell's The Lady and the Lug (1940). He graduated to features with the Sam Katzman unit at Monogram in 1941, then spent the war years working on Columbia's "B"-movie product. Jack Henley wrote or co-wrote virtually all of Columbia's "Blondie" films from 1947 to 1950, before closing out his career at Universal with such films as Bonzo Goes to College (1952).