Lenore Coffee
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 with the participation in a contest, in which it came to proposals for the plot of a new film by Clara Kimball Young. Your submission pleased the producers and Coffee got a job as a screenwriter. In the following years she became a highly paid specialist in melodrama and romantic women's lives. The early 1930s was initially Coffee at MGM under contract. From 1937 she worked mainly for Warner Brothers, where she also wrote several screenplays for Bette Davis, including The Great Lie. Your last artistically and financially successful production was the multi- Oscar-nominated crime film Masked hearts in 1952 helped Joan Crawford at a comeback. 1973 published her memoirs Coffee Storyline: Reflections of a Hollywood Screenwriter.
It was at the Academy Awards in 1939 for her work on father conducts nominated Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in the category.
She was usually called as Lenore Coffee uncredited.