Adele Comandini

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Adele Comandini (born April 29, 1898 in New York , † July 22, 1987 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Story in 1937 .

biography

Adele Comandini, the daughter of Italian immigrants , began her career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1926 with the literary adaptation for the film Die Braut am Scheidewege . In the course of time she wrote the templates for more than twenty films by the mid- 1950s .

At the Academy Awards in 1937 she was nominated for the Oscar for best original story and indeed for Three cute girls ( Three Smart Girls , 1936). Other well-known films based on their scripts were Beyond Tomorrow (1940) and Christmas made to measure (1945), which was filmed again in 1992 by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Kris Kristofferson and Tony Curtis under the original title Christmas in Connecticut and was Schwarzenegger's first directorial work.

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SURNAME Comandini, Adele
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Commandini, Adele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH new York
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1987
Place of death Los Angeles , California