Alice Arlen

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Alice Albright Arlen (born November 6, 1940 in Chicago , Illinois - † February 29, 2016 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an American screenwriter and biographer .

Life

Alice Albright was born in 1940 to the journalist Josephine Patterson Albright and the painter Ivan Albright. She grew up in Chicago with her sister and two brothers. After graduating from Radcliffe College , Arlen worked as a freelance writer and journalist in Chicago. In 1966 she wrote a biography about the journalist and newspaper publisher Cissy Patterson, Arlen's great-aunt. A biography of her aunt Alicia Patterson, completed by Arlen in 2015, will be published posthumously. After the divorce from her husband, James F. Hoge, an editor-in-chief, she moved with her children to New York to work as a journalist. It was there that she met the then journalist and later auteur filmmaker Nora Ephron . After further studies at Columbia University from 1979 to 1980, it was also her friend Ephron who asked Arlen to help her co-write the script for Silkwood . With her debut screenplay she was able to celebrate her greatest success in 1984 with an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay .

After her marriage to Hoge, she married Michael J. Arlen, with whom she had three children and four stepchildren.

Works

Filmography (selection)

Awards (selection)

Oscar

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alice Arlen, Screenwriter With Premier Journalistic Pedigree, Dies at 75. In: nytimes.com. The New York Times , February 29, 2016, accessed March 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Kenan Heise: Josephine Patterson Albright, journalist. In: chicagotribune.com , January 18, 1996, accessed January 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Lawrence Van Gelder: Josephine Patterson Albright, Colorful Journalist, Dies at 82. In: nytimes.com January 18, 1996, accessed January 19, 2012 (English).
  4. ↑ TheWrap.com, accessed on March 2, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Alice Arlen. In: Turner Classic Movies . Retrieved October 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Jesse basket Luth: Scenes From A Marriage. In: The New Yorker , March 14, 1983, p. 42. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  7. ^ Reminiscences of Alice Albright Hoge: oral history, 1969. In: columbia.edu , accessed on January 19, 2012 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Arlen, Alice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arlen, Alice Albright (full name); Hoge, Alice Albright (name during first marriage); Patterson, Alice Albright (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois , United States
DATE OF DEATH February 29, 2016
Place of death Manhattan , New York City , United States