Claude Binyon was a screenwriter and director. He was born October 17, 1905 and died February 14, 1978. His genres were comedy, musicals, and romances. As a Chicago-based journalist, he became city editor of the show-biz trade magazine Variety in the late '20's. Legend has it that Binyon, rather than Variety's colorful editor Syme Silverman, came up with the famous stock market crash headline, … Wikipedia
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