Hanns Kräly — They Can’t Overwork Kraly (1926) 🇺🇸

Hans Kraly [Hanns Kräly] could have more jobs than any scenarist in Hollywood — if he wanted them.

He came to this country from Europe, two years ago, to write the Ernst Lubitsch scenarios, and already he is being hailed far and wide as the man who is always certain to do a perfect script for a picture.

Consider the list of worthwhile features that he already has to his credit: Three Women, “Her Night of Romance,” “Forbidden Paradise,” Kiss Me Again, “Her Sister from Paris,” and now, “The Eagle,” starring Rudolph Valentino. Before coming to the United States, he also wrote Passion [Madame DuBarry (1919)], “Deception,” and other major productions that Lubitsch directed abroad. He is now under contract to Joseph M. Schenck to do Norma [Norma Talmadge] and Constance Talmadge pictures.

They say of his scripts that hardly a line ever has to be taken away or added. They are not mere drab, dreary, dull recitals of long shots, close-ups and cutbacks. They are alive and electric with intimate feeling. They are so vividly done, and with such an intense personal note, that the action really seems to transpire before your eyes as you read them.

Kraly has not compromised with his new environment either. He doesn’t like to be rushed or hurried. He is one of the few who work totally by inspiration. Some days he may write only about a half hour, while the stress of his enthusiasm lasts. Another time he may get up in the middle of the night to jot down the high lights of a scene.

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Collection: Picture Play Magazine, January 1926