Bronte Woodard (October 8, 1940 – August 6, 1980) was an American writer whose credits include the adapted screenplay for the film '' Grease'' and the screenplay for the 1980

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'' (co-written with ''Grease'' producer

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). He also wrote a novel, ''Meet Me at the Melba''. Raised in

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, he died of hepatitis-related liver failure at the age of 39 on August 6, 1980, in

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. In 1976,

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announced plans to make a film of Anne Rivers Siddons' novel ''Heartbreak Hotel'' for which Woodard would write the screenplay. However, the novel was not actually filmed until several years after Woodard's death, reaching the screen under the title '' Heart of Dixie'' in 1989 with a screenplay by Tom McCown instead of Woodard.

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