Eleanor Perry
Eleanor Perry (* as Eleanor Irene Rosenfeld, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, † March 14, 1981 in New York City ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.
Life
Perry studied at Western Reserve University, where he made a degree in social work in psychiatry. She then focused on mental hygiene and other psychiatric issues.
With her husband Leo Bayer, she wrote under the pseudonym Oliver Weld Bayer some thriller, there was also a joint effort, the stage play Third Best Sport, which was listed in 1958 on Broadway. From the relationship two children were born. Your 1937 -born son William Bayer worked as a writer. In 1959 divorce from Leo Bayer.
Perry began her career as a screenwriter with the film David and Lisa. The film was also the first collaboration with her second husband, Frank Perry, with whom she had been married since 1960. Up to and including 1970 was followed by further joint productions, including television projects in close cooperation with Truman Capote. In 1971 their separation. Following Perry appeared only sporadically as a screenwriter in appearance. At the 1973 published The man who was dancing the cats she was also first- involved and once as a producer.
Published in 1979, Perry BluePages her first novel.
For the screenplay for David and Lisa Perry was nominated in 1963 for Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in the category. 1967 and 1973, they were each awarded an Emmy.
At the International Film Festival in Berlin in 1972, she was the president of the jury.
Perry died of cancer. In her films, as well as in its other occurrence Perry took explicit feminist positions and criticized the handling of women in the Hollywood film industry.