Dwight Taylor

Dwight Taylor was a playwright, author, film/television writer, and journalist born in New York City and the son of the playwright Charles Taylor and actress Laurette Taylor. In 1928 his first play Don’t Tell George was produced. He became a journalist for The New Yorker magazine but began writing movies and plays. Dwight Taylor is best known for the play Gay Divorce which was later adapted into a musical and ultimately the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie, retitled The Gay Divorcee. He is also known for the musical Out of This World (co-written with Cole Porter), a play called Lipstick, and the screenplay* Jailbreak* now titled Numbered Men which came out in 1930. One of the founding members of the Writers Guild of America, West, Taylor also presided for one term as the guild’s president. He died in Woodland Hills, California.