Hagar Wilde
Hagar Wilde (born July 7, 1905 in Toledo , Ohio , † September 25, 1971 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American author.
life and career
Hagar Wilde's short story Bringing Up Baby was published in Collier’s magazine in April 1937 , after which it attracted the attention of RKO Pictures and director Howard Hawks . She was brought to Hollywood for the film of the same name by Hawks. She received $ 1,000 for rights to the short story and $ 10,725 for work on the script. Wilde and her co- writer Dudley Nichols began a romance while working on the script. A few months later, they were still working on the script of the Fred Astaire film Carefree by Dr. Flagg - Carefree together, then parted again.
In the 1940s she worked on Broadway as the author of the plays Guest in the House (1942) and Made in Heaven (1946), the first play ran for a few months and was also made into a film in 1944 with Anne Baxter and Ralph Bellamy in the leading roles. In 1949 she worked again with Hawks when she was co-writing the script for his comedy I Was a Male War Bride . In the 1950s she wrote for numerous US television series, most recently in 1959 for the General Electric Theater . Hagar Wilde died in 1971, penniless and bitter, at the age of 66. A friend of her complained years later, in a letter to the New York Times , that at the time of her death Bringing Up Baby was "being enjoyed by millions on late-night television. None of these broadcasts earned her a penny ”.
Filmography (selection)
- 1938: You don't kiss leopards (Bringing Up Baby)
- 1938: Carefree by Dr. Flagg - Carefree (Carefree)
- 1944: Guest in the House
- 1945: Death lives next door (The Unseen)
- 1949: I Was a Male War Bride (I Was a Male War Bride)
- 1949: Red, Hot and Blue
- 1950: Count Orloff's dangerous love (Shadow of the Eagle)
- 1954–1955: Fireside Theater (TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1956–1959: General Electric Theater (TV series, 5 episodes)
Web links
- Hagar Wilde in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ "Bringing up Baby" by Hagar Wilde, Collier's Weekly, Saturday, April 10th, 1937. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Gerald Mast: Bringing Up Baby . Rutgers University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8135-1341-6 ( google.de [accessed January 10, 2018]).
- ^ The Broadway League: Hagar Wilde - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
- ↑ John Brahm, John Cromwell: Guest in the House. December 8, 1944, accessed January 10, 2018 .
- ^ Stephanie Harrison - Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen - Excerpt. (No longer available online.) January 20, 2007, archived from the original on January 20, 2007 ; accessed on January 10, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilde, Hagar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toledo , Ohio , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1971 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |