Elizabeth Hill

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Elizabeth Hill (born February 27, 1901 in Maine , USA , † August 21, 1978 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

When Elizabeth Hall married the director King Vidor in 1933 , she too got into the film business. She started as a script assistant for her husband and began working on scripts herself in 1935. Since she had to look after her husband's three children as a stepmother, she was only able to work in a few films. Her works include Our Daily Bread (1934), Texas Border Police (1936), The Citadel (1938), Northwest Passage (1940) and The Death Riders of Laredo (1949), all of whom, except for the latter, are her husband Directed by.

At the Academy Awards in 1939 she was nominated for The Citadel together with Ian Dalrymple and Frank Wead in the category Best Adapted Screenplay .

Elizabeth Hill stayed with her husband until her death in 1978. They were married for 46 years.

Filmography

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