Dorothy Kingsley
Dorothy Kingsley ( born October 14, 1909 in New York City; † September 26, 1997 in Monterey, California ) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Dorothy Kingsley was born in 1909 as a subsidiary of silent film actress Alma Hanlon and the newspaper reporter and press agent Walter Kingsley in New York. As a divorced mother of three children Kingsley began her career in the 1930s as a gag - writer for radio shows with Bob Hope and Edgar Bergen. She was then one of the few female authors in their field. In the early 1940s, she went to Hollywood to work on the screenplay for Bergen RKO comedy Look Who 's Laughing ( 1941). Movie producer Arthur Freed gave her a contract in 1943 as a screenwriter at MGM, where she specialized in film musicals and comedies. So she wrote a number of screenplays for films with Esther Williams, including Venus Bathers ( Bathing Beauty, 1944), Neptune's Daughter ( Neptune 's Daughter, 1949) and Jupiter's favorite (Jupiter 's Darling, 1955). In the film industry, she was soon known to build logical storylines that completely also involved a large cast. They also often jumped when a script had to be revised, often without having been mentioned in the credits. She herself did not see himself as a writer who wanted to realize themselves. According to an interview she had only written screenplays in order to make money. Particularly frequently, she worked there along with director George Sidney. They also adapted successful musicals for the big screen, resulting in films such as Kiss Me, Kate! (Kiss Me Kate, 1953), Pal Joey (1957) and Can- Can ( 1960) emerged. In 1955 she received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award, for which she was nominated several times during their careers for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
1970 Kingsley moved with her second husband, William Durney for many years into private life to Carmel -by-the -Sea back to where both a winery founded in 1968. In the early 1990s, she appeared briefly back from her retirement when she suggested media mogul Ted Turner to shoot a remake of the baseball movie Angels in the Outfield (1951 ), for which she had once written the screenplay. In 1994, the project was as Angels - Angels are there really! ( Angels in the Outfield ) realized.
Kingsley died in 1997 at the age of 87 years at the Community Hospital in Monterey, California, of heart failure. She had six children; Michael Durney, Durney Armanasco Christine, Terry Kingsley -Smith and Susan Durney Mickelson and Dennis and Steven Durney, who died before her mother.