Eleanor Perry

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Eleanor Perry (* as Eleanor Irene Rosenfeld 1914 in Cleveland , Ohio , † March 14, 1981 in New York City ) was an American screenwriter and writer.

Life

Perry graduated from Western Reserve University with a degree in social work in psychiatry. Afterwards she dealt with mental hygiene and other psychiatric topics.

With her husband Leo Bayer, she wrote a number of thrillers under the pseudonym Oliver Weld Bayer, and the stage play Third Best Sport, which was staged on Broadway in 1958 , was created together. The relationship resulted in two children. Her son William Bayer , born in 1937, works as a writer. In 1959 he divorced Leo Bayer.

Perry began her screenwriting career with the film David and Lisa . The film was also the first collaboration with her second husband Frank Perry , to whom she was married since 1960. Further joint productions followed up to and including 1970, including television projects in close cooperation with Truman Capote . In 1971 they separated. Afterwards, Perry only appeared occasionally as a screenwriter. In 1973, published The Man Who Made the Cats Dance, she was involved for the first time as a producer.

In 1979 Perry published her first novel, Blue Pages.

Perry was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 in the Best Adapted Screenplay category for the screenplay for David and Lisa . In 1967 and 1973 she was awarded an Emmy .

At the 1972 Berlin International Film Festival she was the president of the jury .

Perry died of complications from cancer. In her films as well as in her other appearance, Perry took explicit feminist positions and criticized the treatment of women in the Hollywood film industry.

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SURNAME Perry, Eleanor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenfeld, Eleanor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland , Ohio , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1981
Place of death New York City , USA