Frances H. Flaherty
Frances Hubbard Flaherty ( born December 5, 1883 in the USA, † June 22, 1972 ) was an American documentary filmmaker and writer, who along with her husband Robert J. Flaherty for both the Academy Award for best original story as well as for the of the Writers Guild of America awarded Robert Meltzer Award was nominated for the screenplay with the best handling American problems.
Life
Frances Hubbard married in 1914 a documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty and lived with this until his death in 1951. In the following years she worked with on the film projects of her husband and was first screenwriter in Nanook of the North ( Nanook of the North, 1922), considered one of the most important documentaries of the silent film era and as the first documentary feature-length films as well as in 1989 has been added to the National film Registry.
After she had worked in 1934 on the staff at The Men of Aran ( Man of Aran ), it was with the 1942 film The resulting country operates both as a screenwriter and as an assistant director. At the 1937 on the narrative based Toomai of the elephant from the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling and by her husband and Zoltan Korda staged adventure film Elephant Boy ( Elephant Boy) with Sabu Sabu she published in 1937 the book, the elephant boy.
In 1948 she wrote with her husband, the script for the film drama Legend Louisiana (Louisiana Story) with Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc and E. Bienvenu in the lead roles. For those incurred under the direction of Robert J. Flaherty's film the couple were nominated for both the Academy Award for best original story as well as for the Writers Guild of America ( WGA) awarded Robert Meltzer Award for the screenplay with the best deal with U.S. American problems. This excellent with other film awards film was also included in the National Film Registry in 1994.
1960 appeared, written by her biography of her husband under the title The odyssey of a film-maker Robert Flaherty 's story. In 1971, she starred in the documentary film directed by Peter Werner Hidden and Seeking with.
Publications
- With Ursula Leacock: Sabu, the elephant boy. Dent, London 1937 (. In German language: The Elephant Boy Schneider, Berlin 1938, several editions ).
- Elephant Dance. Faber and Faber, London, 1937.
- The odyssey of a film-maker. Robert Flaherty 's Story. Beta Phi Mu, Urbana IL 1960.
Filmography
Background literature
- Robert J. Christopher (ed.): Robert and Frances Flaherty. A Documentary Life, 1883-1922 ( McGill - Queen's Native = and Northern Series. Vol. 45). McGill - Queen's University Press, Montreal, inter alia, 2005, ISBN 0-7735-2876-8.