Douglas Morrow; Academy Award-Winning Producer, Screenwriter

Douglas Morrow, 81, a film producer and screenwriter who won an Academy Award in 1949 for his script of “The Stratton Story,” in which James Stewart stars as an ill-fated baseball player. The picture also was named most popular feature of the year by Photoplay magazine. Morrow, whose other film credits include “Jim Thorpe--All American” and “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt,” also was an experienced mountain climber who, at age 71, ascended to the 21,000-foot level of Mt. Everest without the help of oxygen. In the Adirondack Mountains of New York where he was visiting Sept. 9.