Virginia Van Upp

Virginia Van Upp ( born January 13, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, † March 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American screenwriter and film producer.

Career

Virginia Van Upp stood from 1934 as a scriptwriter under contract at Paramount Pictures, where she often worked with director Edward H. Griffith. In 1944, she made ​​the Columbia boss Harry Cohn into an executive producer of his studio. Van Upp was next to Harriet Parsons and Joan Harrison for a long time one of the few women who were employed in this position at a major Hollywood studio.

In 1952 she was from the Writers Guild of America for Best Screenplay nomination in a movie musical together with Liam O'Brien and Myles Connolly for Frank Capra's wedding parade. Van Upp is however best known for their collaboration with Columbia's biggest star Rita Hayworth, whose image it with films like Cover Girl ( Cover Girl, 1944) and Gilda (1946 ) defined prevail. Both films were enormously successful at the box office and made Hayworth to the screen queen of the 1940s, which is why Van Upp was commissioned in 1952 by Harry Cohn to produce Hayworth comeback after a four year hiatus with Affair in Trinidad.

1953 Van Upp retired from the film business.

Filmography

Screenplay

Production