Gladys Lehman

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Gladys Lehman (born January 24, 1892 in Gates , Oregon , † April 7, 1993 in Newport Beach , California ; born Gladys Collins ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Gladys Lehman began her career as a screenwriter at Universal Studios in 1926 . She moved to Columbia Pictures in 1929, but returned to Universal a year later. In 1934 she co-wrote with Maxwell Anderson on behalf of Paramount Pictures , the screenplay for the film Death Takes a Holiday ( Death Takes a Holiday ), based on the play La Morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella . In 1998 - inspired by this script - the remake Rendezvous with Joe Black ( Meet Joe Black ) with Brad Pitt as the grim reaper.

1945 Lehman got together with Richard Connell an Oscar nomination in the category Best Original Screenplay for the script for the film My Girls and a Sailor ( Two Girls and a Sailor ).

Gladys Lehman was also one of the founders of the Screenwriters Guild, an association of screenwriters that later became the Writers Guild of America . In the 1950s she retired into private life. She had one child with her husband, Benjamin H. Lehman Jr. She died in Newport Beach , California in 1993 at the age of 101 .

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SURNAME Lehman, Gladys
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collins, Gladys (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Gates , Oregon
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1993
Place of death Newport Beach , California