Claudine West

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Claudine West (born January 16, 1890 in Nottingham , England , † April 11, 1943 in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles ; actually Ivy Claudine Godber ) was a British screenwriter .

Life

Claudine West was under contract with MGM from 1929 after she had adapted Frederick Lonsdale's play The Last of Mrs. Cheyney for the screen with Hans Kraly and had worked for the first time with director Sidney Franklin . In the years that followed, she and other authors wrote other scripts for Franklin's films, including Der Weg im Dunkel (1935) with Fredric March and Die gute Erde (1937) with Paul Muni and Luise Rainer .

She was first nominated for an Oscar for her work on the script of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) . In 1943 she received two Oscar nominations in the Best Adapted Screenplay category , one for Mervyn LeRoy's drama Found Years (1942) with Ronald Colman and Greer Garson and the other for William Wyler's war drama Mrs. Miniver (1942), also with Garson. West eventually received the trophy for Mrs. Miniver along with George Froeschel , James Hilton and Arthur Wimperis .

Claudine West died in Beverly Hills in 1943 at the age of 53, before The White Cliffs of Dover (1944), the last film she was involved in, was released. She was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale .

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SURNAME West, Claudine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Godber, Ivy Claudine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Nottingham , England
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1943
Place of death Beverly Hills , Los Angeles