continued to act in movies, including one final appearance in a top quality film, Selznick's Since You Went Away (1944) where he played a grocer's son who exchanges bashful glances with Shirley Temple. The movie was one of five Oscar nominees for Best Picture (it eventually lost to Going My Way). Moran ended his screen career in 1945-1946 with a collection of teenage musical comedies at Columbia and Monogram. He was the title character in Monogram's comedy-mystery There Goes Kelly, and co-starred with exuberant young actress June Preisser in Columbia's Let's Go Steady and Monogram's Junior Prom, Freddie Steps Out and High School Hero. The last three were part of a series which, in addition to Jackie Moran and June Preisser, starred Freddie Stewart, Warren Mills, Frankie Darro and Noel Neill. Later life Jackie Moran's final movie role was in Columbia's 1946 college drama Betty Co-Ed. Accounts differ as to his occupations in the remaining forty-four years of his life. His obituaries stated that he became a screenwriter for B movies in the 1950s, but no specific titles were indicated. It was also written that he wrote songs. In the 1960s, a screenwriter using Jackie's real name, John E. Moran, worked extensively with Russ Meyer, notably on the films Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Good Morning and... Goodbye!, Common Law Cabin, and Wild Gals of the Naked West, also playing small roles in the latter two films. The credits of the two are occasionally combined, but there is no confirmation that they are the same person. The obituaries also stated that in his later years, Jackie Moran worked in public relations for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chicago. Moran moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts in 1984 and wrote a novel, Six Step House. Six years after his arrival, he died of lung cancer in the town's Franklin Medical Center at the age of 67. As requested in his will, Jackie Moran's ashes were scattered on the backstretch of the Del Mar Racetrack, a thoroughbred horse racing facility in Del Mar, California. Filmography And So They Were Married (1936) - Tommy Blake Counterfeit (1936) - Duckfoot (uncredited) Valiant Is the Word for Carrie (1936) - Paul Darnley (as a Child) Outcast (1937) - Freddie Simmerson Michael O'Halloran (1937) - Michael O'Halloran The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) - Huckleberry Finn Mad About Music (1938) - Tommy Arson Gang Busters (1938) - Jimmy Riler