Lenore J. Coffee

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Lenore Jackson Coffee (born July 13, 1896 in San Francisco , California , † July 2, 1984 in Woodland Hills , California) was an American screenwriter .

Life

Lenore J. Coffee began her career in 1919 by taking part in a competition to propose the plot of a new Clara Kimball Young film . The producers liked your submission and Coffee got a job as a screenwriter. In the following years she advanced to become a highly paid specialist in melodramas and the fate of romantic women. In the early 1930s, Coffee was initially under contract with MGM . From 1937 she worked mainly for Warner Brothers , where she also wrote some scripts for Bette Davis , including Reversed Luck . Her last artistically and financially successful production was the multi-Oscar-nominated crime film Masked Hearts , which Joan Crawford made a comeback in 1952. In 1973, Coffee published her memoir Storyline: Reflections of a Hollywood Screenwriter .

She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1939 Academy Awards for her work on Father Conducting .

She was mostly named as Lenore Coffee in the credits.

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SURNAME Coffee, Lenore J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coffee, Lenore Jackson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 1984
Place of death Woodland Hills , California