Joseph Farnham

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Joseph White Farnham December 2 1884 June 2 1931 was an American playwright and a film writer and film editor of the silent movie era to the early 1930s He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Born in Connecticut in 1884Farnham got his start in film through his business relationship with theatre empresarios Gustave and Daniel Frohman who owned The Frohman Amusement Corp The Big Parade is probably the most famous of his works adapted to film In the 1st Academy Awards of 1929 nominees could be considered for an Oscar for an award on the basis of multiple films within the year Joseph won his Best Writing Title Cards award for the films Fair CoEd Laugh Clown Laugh and Telling the World This was the only year that an Oscar for title cards would be awarded Joseph Farnham was the very first Academy Awardwinner to die He died in 1931 of a heart attack while living in Los Angeles California and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale California