Edna Anhalt (born Edna Thompson) was an American

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

, television writer, and film producer.

Biography

Together with then-husband

Edward Anhalt Edward Anhalt (March 28, 1914 – September 3, 2000) was an American screenwriter, producer, and documentary filmmaker. After working as a journalist and documentary filmmaker for Pathé and CBS-TV, he teamed with his wife Edna Anhalt, one of ...

, she enjoyed some considerable success in a 10-year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Academy Award for Best Story win for

Elia Kazan Elias Kazantzoglou (, ; September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003), known as Elia Kazan ( ), was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by ''The New York Times'' as "one of the most honored and inf ...

's 1950 film '' Panic in the Streets'', and another nomination two years later for '' The Sniper''. She also wrote the screenplays to ''

The Member of the Wedding ''The Member of the Wedding'' is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers. It took McCullers five years to complete, although she interrupted the work for a few months to write the novella '' The Ballad of the Sad Café''.McDowell, Mar ...

'' (1952), '' Not as a Stranger'' (1955) and ''

The Pride and the Passion ''The Pride and the Passion'' is a 1957 American Napoleonic-era war film in Technicolor and VistaVision from United Artists, produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, and Sophia Loren. The film co-stars ...

'' (1957), which was her last film credit. Following her divorce from Edward, she later moved into television script-writing and wrote episodes for anthologies ''The Schlitz Playhouse'' (1957), ''General Electric Theatre'' (1958), and ''The Virginian'' (1965).

Filmography

References

1914 births 1987 deaths American women screenwriters Best Story Academy Award winners 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1910s-stub