Walter D. Edmonds

Walter D. Edmonds was born on Jul 15, 1903 in USA. Walter D. Edmonds's big-screen debut came with The Farmer Takes a Wife directed by Victor Fleming in 1935.

American novelist Walter Dumaux Edmonds graduated from Harvard University in 1926, While at Harvard he was president of the Harvard Advocate magazine. A course in English awakened his interest in writing, and while still at the Advocate he submitted a story to "Scribner's" magazine, which published it. His first novel, "Rome Haul", was about the Erie Canal and sold well, eventually being turned into a Broadway play ("The Farmer Takes a Wife") by Marc Connelly and then being sold to Hollywood, where it ended up as John Ford's Sur la piste des Mohawks (1939) (on which he served as Technical Advisor).