Carol Sobieski

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Carol Sobieski (born March 16, 1939 in Chicago , Illinois as Carol O'Brien , † November 4, 1990 in Santa Monica , California ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Carol Sobieski was born Carol O'Brien and the daughter of a lawyer and a teacher and politician in Chicago. However, she spent her childhood in Amarillo , Texas , where she moved when she was five years old. After graduating from Smith College , she graduated from Trinity College in Dublin , Ireland , whereupon her uncle, screenwriter and Oscar winner James R. Webb , encouraged her to come to Los Angeles to try it as a screenwriter. And so, after writing a total of nine scripts for the two television series Mr. Novak and Peyton Place , she was able to write her first screenplay for a feature film in 1966 with the drama Fame Is the Name of the Game .

In her career, she was nominated twice for an Emmy , received an unflattering nomination for Worst Screenplay for the Golden Raspberry and was posthumously awarded an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in the literary adaptation Green Tomatoes .

Since 1964 she was married to the lawyer James Louis Sobieski, with whom they had three children. Carol Sobieski died at home on November 4, 1990 from complications from amyloidosis .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: Mr. Novak (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1965–1966: Peyton Place (TV series, 6 episodes)
  • 1966: Fame Is the Name of the Game
  • 1971: Just One Game (A Little Game)
  • 1976: Harry S. Truman: Plain Speaking
  • 1978: The Champion (Casey's Shadow)
  • 1982: Annie
  • 1982: The playmate (The Toy)
  • 1985: Obsessed with a Married Woman
  • 1985: New Years Eve
  • 1988: Agent Without a Name (The Bourne Identity)
  • 1988: Winter People - Like a Leaf in the Wind (Winter People)
  • 1991: A Sea for Sarah (Sarah, Plain and Tall)
  • 1991: Green tomatoes (Fried Green Tomatoes (at the Whistle Stop Cafe))

Awards (selection)

Oscar
Golden Raspberry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Debbie Mauldin Cottrell: SOBIESKI, CAROL O'BRIEN . Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
  2. ^ Burt A. Folkert: Carol Sobieski; Honored for Movie, TV Writing on latimes.com, dated October 15, 2011
  3. ↑ Eleanor Blau: Carol Sobieski, 51, A Writer of Scripts For Films and TV on nytimes.com from November 9, 1990 (English), accessed October 15, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Sobieski, Carol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES O'Brien, Carol (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1990
Place of death Santa Monica , California, United States