Nunnally Johnson was a multi-Academy Award-nominated American writer, producer, director, columnist, journalist with the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, Savannah Press, Brooklyn Daily Eagle (1919-25), New York Herald Tribune (1926), New York Evening Post (1927-30), and was a frequent contributor to the Saturday Evening Post.

Some of his credits as screenwriter include The Grapes of Wrath, The Dirty Dozen, Tobacco Road, Jesse James, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, The Desert Fox, How to Marry a Millionaire, and The Three Faces of Eve. Johnson also served as both director and producer of The Three Faces of Eve, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Night People and Black Widow.

Full or original name at birth: Nunnally Hunter Johnson

Date and place of birth: December 5, 1897, Columbus, Georgia, U.S.A.

Date, place and cause of death: March 25, 1977, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (Pneumonia)

Marriage #1
Spouse: Alice Mason (m. 1919 - 1920) (divorced)

Marriage #2
Spouse: Marion Byrnes (m. 1927 - 1938) (divorced)

Marriage #3
Spouse: Dorris Bowdon (m. February 4, 1940 - March 25, 1977) (his death)

Children *
Son: Scott Johnson (with third wife Dorris Bowdon)

Daughters: Christie Johnson (with Dorris)
Marjorie Johnson (with first wife Alice Mason)
Nora Johnson (with second wife Marion Byrnes)
Roxanna Johnson (with Dorris)

Parents
Father: James Nunnally Johnson
Mother: Pearl (Patrick) Johnson

Burial site: Westwood Memorial Park (a.k.a. Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery), Westwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

* A couple of sources erroneously report Gene Fowler was one of Johnson's kids. This would have been an exceedingly difficult task since Gene was actually older than Johnson. Gene Fowler, Jr., on the other hand, was married to his daughter Marjorie, making Gene, Jr. his son-in-law.