Gladys Hill
Gladys Hill (* 1916 ; † April 8, 1981 in New York City , New York ) was an American screenwriter and actress who, through her collaboration with John Huston and films such as Reflection in the Golden Eye , The Letter to the Kremlin or The Man who wanted to be king became internationally known.
life and career
Gladys Hill, born in 1916, worked between 1946 and 1951 as a dialogue director for films such as The Stranger , We Were Strangers , and Satan is not where songs are sung in Hollywood . From the early 1960s she worked for the director John Huston , first as his personal assistant and advisor on numerous of his film productions, and later as his screenwriter. Her breakthrough as a writer in the cinema came in 1967 when she wrote the screenplay for Huston's film Mirror Image in the Golden Eye, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando, together with Chapman Mortimer. In 1970 she wrote the screenplay for the cinema production The Letter to the Kremlin with Bibi Andersson and Richard Boone together with Huston . For the historical drama The Man Who Wanted to Be King, starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine , she and John Huston received an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1976 .
In addition to her work as a screenwriter, Gladys Hill also occasionally worked as an actress, among other things, she was seen in the 1964 movie The Night of the Iguana with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner , in 1979 in John Huston's film production The Heretic and in the same year alongside the actor Huston in William Richerts drama Philadelphia Clan .
Awards (selection)
- 1976: Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1976 award ceremony for the historical drama The Man Who Wanted to Be King with John Huston
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- as a screenwriter
- 1967: Reflections in a Golden Eye (Reflections in a Golden Eye)
- 1970: The letter to the Kremlin (The Kremlin Letter)
- : 1975 wanted to be The Man, the King (The Man Who Would Be King)
- as an actress
- 1964: The Night of the Iguana (The Night of the Iguana)
- 1979: Philadelphia Clan (Winter Kills)
- 1979: The Heretic / The Wisdom of Blood (Wise Blood)
Web links
- Gladys Hill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gladys Hill . in: John Huston, Robert Emmet Long John Huston: Interviews. , Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2001, p. 74
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hill, Gladys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1916 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 8, 1981 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York , United States |