Isobel Lennart

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Isobel Lennart (born May 18, 1915 in New York City , † January 25, 1971 in Hemet , California ) was an American screenwriter and writer .

Live and act

From Brooklyn Dating Lennart began her career in film in the mail room of the MGM and went over the years for tenured screenwriter of this production company on. Her membership in the Communist Party of the USA from 1939 to 1944 brought Isobel Lennart into the crosshairs of the Committee for Un-American Activities right after the Second World War . Since Isobel Lennart showed herself to be "cooperative" and denounced a total of 21 KP members , she was not put on the blacklist and was allowed to continue working as a screenwriter.

Lennart manuscripts from the 1940s and 1950s initially served primarily as templates for light fabrics. She wrote for comedies, romances and film musicals, less often for melodramas and dramas like Lost Game with Barbara Stanwyck and James Mason . A few of these Lennart works were substantial and very successful, such as the lively dance musical Vacation in Hollywood with Gene Kelly . Other works, however, such as Sidney Lanfields girls ahoy were panned literally: this film was "the (according to US talk show host as a Dick Cavett dümmlichsten strip the US film history)." For their screenplay contributions to Love Me and The Sundowners received Author an Oscar nomination in 1956 and 1961 respectively .

Isobel Lennart's only non-film work, Funny Girl , in which she thematized the life of the dancer Fanny Brice , was performed very successfully from March 1964 to July 1967 in a total of 1,348 performances on Broadway. Immediately afterwards, Hollywood filmed the musical under the same name , paving the way for Barbra Streisand's breakthrough as the new screen star. The Writers Guild of America honored Isobel Lennart with the WGA Award in 1969 for her screenplay performance shown here. It was to be Lennart's last film.

Lennart, who had a son and a daughter from her marriage to actor and screenwriter John Harding, died in a car accident at the beginning of 1971.

Filmography

Movies (complete)

  • 1942: The Affairs of Martha
  • 1943: A Stranger in Town
  • 1943: The Little Angel (Lost Angel)
  • 1945: Vacation in Hollywood (Anchors Aweigh)
  • 1946: Ball in the embassy (Holiday in Mexico)
  • 1947: It Happened in Brooklyn
  • 1948: The Kissing Bandit
  • 1949: Holiday Affair
  • 1949: Lost Game (East Side, West Side)
  • 1950: A Life of Her Own
  • 1951: It's a Big Country
  • 1952: Girls ahoy (Skirts Ahoy)
  • 1952: My Wife's Best Friend
  • 1953: Serenade in Rio (Latin Lovers)
  • 1953: The Girl Next Door
  • 1955: Tyrannical Love (Love Me or Leave Me)
  • 1955: Viva Las Vegas (Meet Me in Las Vegas)
  • 1957: No place for fine women (This Could be the Night)
  • 1957: King of Jesters (Merry Andrew)
  • 1958: The Inn of the sixth happiness (The Inn of the Sixth Happiness)
  • 1959: Championship in fling (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
  • 1959: The Endless Horizon (The Sundowners)
  • 1960: And the Night Will Be Silent (By Love Possessed)
  • 1962: Period of Adjustment
  • 1962: two-player game (Two for the Seasaw)
  • 1967: The Lady and Her Crooks (Fitzwilly)
  • 1968: Funny Girl

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 570.
  2. ↑ Funny Girl on Broadway

literature

  • International Motion Picture Almanac 1965 . Quigley Publishing Company, New York 1964, p. 167

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personal data
SURNAME Lennart, Isobel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1971
Place of death Hemet , California