Gladys Lehman
Gladys Lehman ( born January 24, 1892 in Gates, Oregon, † April 7, 1993 in Newport Beach, California, native Gladys Collins) was an American screenwriter.
Life
Gladys Lehman began her career in 1926 as a screenwriter at Universal Studios. In 1929, she moved to Columbia Pictures, but returned a year later to Universal back. In 1934, she co-wrote with Maxwell Anderson on behalf of Paramount Pictures, the screenplay for the film The Black Majesty (Death Takes a Holiday ), based on the play La Morte in vacanza by Alberto Casella. 1998 saw - inspired by this scenario - the remake Meet Joe Black (Meet Joe Black ) with Brad Pitt as the Grim Reaper, who falls on the earth in a woman.
1945 Lehman got together with Richard Connell an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay for the script for the film My Sweetheart Is A Sailor ( Two Girls and a Sailor ). Gladys Lehman also one of the founders of the Screen Writers Guild, an association of writers, later, the Writers Guild of America emerged from the. In the 1950s, she retired into private life. With her husband Benjamin H. Lehman Jr. she had a child. She died in 1993 at the age of 101 in Newport Beach, California.