Biography
Stewart Henry Stern (March 22, 1922 – February 2, 2015) was an American screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Stewart Stern, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Scene Missing
2012
as Self
The unfinished documentary about the making of Dennis Hopper's mostly unseen feature film The Last Movie (1971).

James Dean: Sense Memories
2005
as Self
Documentary exploring the last 18 months of James Dean's acting career.

Rescued from the Closet
2001
as Self
Rescued from the Closet is a 2001 documentary consisting of interviews originally recorded for the 1995 film The Celluloid Closet. It explores the his...

The Celluloid Closet
1996
as Self
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serv...

Fright Night
1985
as Cook
Charley Brewster, a high school student, accidentally discovers the true and creepy nature of Jerry Dandrige, his dashing and enigmatic new neighbor; ...

Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
1983
as Writer
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.

A Christmas to Remember
1978
Teleplay
A city-bred grandson moves to his grandparents' farm during the Great Depression and grows up enough under their tough care to help his grandfather de...

The Glass Menagerie
1973
Screenplay
Amanda Wingfield dominates her children with her faded gentility and exaggerated tales of her Southern belle past. Her son plans escape; her daughter ...

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973
Writer
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationship...

The Last Movie
1971
Story, Screenplay
After a film production wraps in Peru, an American wrangler decides to stay behind, witnessing how filmmaking affects the locals.

Rachel, Rachel
1968
Screenplay
Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, sh...

The Ugly American
1963
Writer
An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassad...

The Outsider
1961
Screenplay
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, w...

Thunder in the Sun
1959
Writer
A band of Basque immigrants treks through the Old West toward California, where they hope to put down roots and open wineries. When the group's leader...

Heart of Darkness
1958
Writer
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

The James Dean Story
1957
Screenplay
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews w...

The Rack
1956
Screenplay
Army Captain Edward Hall returns to the U.S. after two years in a prison camp in the Korean War. In the camp, he was brainwashed and helped the Chines...

Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Screenplay
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems...

Teresa
1951
Screenplay, Story
An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.

Benjy
1951
Writer
Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrate...

He Walked by Night
1949
Other
Roy Martin aka Roy Morgan is a burglar and former war-time Radio & Electronics Engineer who listens in to radio police calls, allowing him to stay one...

Hollow Triumph
1948
Dialogue Coach
Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity—with unfortunate results.

The Amazing Mr. X
1948
Other
On the beach one night, Christine Faber, two years a widow, thinks she hears her late husband Paul calling out of the surf...then meets a tall dark ma...

The Cobra Strikes
1948
Other
A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

T-Men
1947
Other, Dialogue
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

Railroaded!
1947
Other
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innoc...

Stepchild
1947
Dialogue Coach
Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her we...

Out of the Blue
1947
Other
Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian ...

The Big Fix
1947
Other
Ken Williams (James Brown), a star basketball player on a college team learns that a police lieutenant (Regis Toomey) is the head of a gambling ring a...