Carol Sobieski
Carol Sobieski ( born March 16, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois as Carol O'Brien, † November 4, 1990 in Santa Monica, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Carol Sobieski was born as Carol O'Brien and daughter of a lawyer and a teacher and politician in Chicago. She spent her childhood, however, in Amarillo, Texas, where she moved at the age of five years. After graduating from Smith College, she graduated from Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, to which her uncle, the screenwriter and Oscar winner James R. Webb, encouraged her to come to Los Angeles in order to try it as a screenwriter. And so it was after they already Mr. Novak and Peyton Place wrote for the two television series nine screenplays, writing in 1966 with the drama of Fame Is the Name of the Game her first screenplay for a feature film.
In her career, she has twice been nominated for an Emmy, received an unflattering nomination for Worst Screenplay Golden Raspberry and was posthumously honored with an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay of the film adaptation Green Tomatoes.
Since the year 1964 she was married to the lawyer James Louis Sobieski, with whom she had three children together. Carol Sobieski died at his home on November 4, 1990 to the consequences of the disease amyloidosis.