Virginia Kellogg
Virginia Kellogg ( born December 3, 1907 in Los Angeles, California, † April 8, 1981 ) was an American screenwriter, each once for the Oscar for best original story and Best Original Screenplay as well as for the Edgar Allan Poe Award was nominated for Best Picture.
Life
Virginia Kellogg began her career as a screenwriter in the Hollywood film industry in 1931 with the film drama The Road to Reno by Richard Wallace with Lilyan Tashman, Charles " Buddy" Rogers and Peggy Shannon in the lead roles.
At the Academy Awards in 1950, she was nominated for an Academy Award for best original story, and indeed for the gangster movie jump to his death ( Alternative title: machine guns, White Heat, 1949) by Raoul Walsh starring James Cagney, Virginia Mayo and Edmond O'Brien. At the same time she got together with Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts for this movie nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best film.
Another Oscar nomination got Virginia Kellogg, who participated only in the creation of nine films in total, at the Academy Awards 1951: This time she was together with Bernard C. Schoenfeld for an Oscar for best original screenplay for the directed by John Cromwell film drama Women's Prison ( Caged, 1950) with Eleanor Parker, Agnes Moorehead and Hope Emerson nominated.
Virginia Kellogg was at times married to the film director Frank Lloyd.