Isobel Lennart (International) assertion Isobel Lennart i(A115439 works by)
Born: Established: 18 May 1915 Brooklyn, New York (City), New York (State),
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
; Died: Ceased: 25 Jan 1971 California,
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,

Gender: Female
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American screenwriter, librettist.

One of Hollywood's most successful female screenwriters, Isobel Lennart was awarded the 1966 Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement and won two Writers Guild of America Awards (for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and Funny Girl in 1969). She was nominated for a further four Writers Guild of America Awards (for Meet Me in Las Vegas in 1956, The Sundowners in 1960, Please Don't Eat the Daisies in 1960, and Period of Adjustment in 1962), for two Academy Awards (for Love Me or Leave Me in 1955 and The Sundowners in 1960), and for a Tony Award for Best Musical (for the Broadway production of Funny Girl in 1964).

Lennart's twenty-seven film screenplays also include The Affairs of Martha (1942), Anchors Aweigh (1945), It Happened in Brooklyn (1947), The Kissing Bandit (1948), Holiday Affair (1949), A Life of Her Own (1950), My Wife's Best Friend (1952), This Could Be the Night (1957), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958), and Fitzwilly (1967).

Isobel Lennart died in 1971 in a car accident in Hammet, California.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

form y separately published work icon The Sundowners ( dir. Fred Zinneman ) 1960 Burbank : Warner Brothers , 1960 Z1497488 1960 single work film/TV

Set in during the Great Depression of the late 1920s, Paddy Carmody and his wife Ida have been living on the road as drovers for sixteen years. Ida who is longing for the family, which includes their young son, to live a more comfortable existence has been secretly saving money so they might eventually settle down. Paddy on the other hand is happy with things as they are. After completing a long drive, which almost sees her husband killed in a bushfire, Ida persuades Paddy to take up a job as a shearer. She is engaged as the cook, and strikes up a close friendship with the wife of the station owner. When Paddy wins a racehorse in a two-up game it seems that Ida's dream of a home will finally happen, but then Paddy shatters it by losing all their money in another two-up game. Their son Sean comes to the rescue, however, by riding the racehorse to victory in a local derby. Ashamed at what he has nearly done to his wife, Paddy remorsefully offers to buy Ida her farm with the prize money. It is then that she realises that it is not yet the time, and they return once more to the open road.

[Source: Australian Screen]

1960 Nominated Writers Guild of America Award Best Written American Drama (Screen)
1961 Nominated Academy Awards Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
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