Eleanore Griffin

Eleanore Griffin (born April 29, 1904 in Saint Paul , Minnesota , † July 25, 1995 in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Eleanore Griffin began her career as a screenwriter at Universal Studios in 1937 . Shortly thereafter, she worked for MGM , where she and Dore Schary wrote the template for the film Teufelskerle ( Boys Town , 1938). For this model, Griffin and Schary won the Oscar in the category Best Original Story in 1939 . After that, Griffin worked for other studios such as Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox . For Columbia Pictures , Griffin reworked the script of Howard Hawks ' aviator film SOS Feuer auf Bord ( Only Angels Have Wings , 1939), in which Cary Grant and Jean Arthur played the leading roles and with which Rita Hayworth made her breakthrough. For Douglas Sirk's melodrama As long as there are people ( Imitation of Life , 1959) Griffin adapted the novel of the same name by Fannie Hurst . Five years later she retired from the film business. She died in 1995 after a long illness at the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills , Los Angeles .

1939: Oscar in the category Best Original Story for the Devil's Guy together with Dore Schary