Edna Anhalt

American screenwriter

Edna Anhalt

Born|

Edna Thompson

April 10, 1914

New York City, New York, USA

Died| 1987
Occupation| Screenwriter
Spouse| Edward Anhalt (div.)

Edna Anhalt (born Edna Thompson) was an American screenwriter, television writer, and film producer.[1] Together with then-husband Edward Anhalt, 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's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The Sniper.[2] She also wrote the screenplays to The Member of the Wedding (1952), Not as a Stranger (1955) and The Pride and the Passion (1957),[3], 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). [4]

## Full filmography[edit]

Year[5] | Film | Role

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1947 | Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | Script
1948 | The Younger Brothers | Script
1948 | Embraceable You | Script
1950 | Panic in the Streets | From a Story By
1950 | Sierra | Screenplay
1950 | Return of the Frontiersman | Screenplay
1952 | My Six Convicts | Associate Producer
1952 | Eight Iron Men | Associate Producer
1952 | The Sniper | Associate Producer. Original Story
1953 | The Member of the Wedding | Associate Producer, Script
1955 | Not as a Stranger | Script
1957 | The Hole Card | Teleplay
1957 | The Pride and the Passion | Screen Story and Screenplay by

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Edward anhalt". OBITUARY. Variety. 2000-09-11. Retrieved 2009-08-05.[dead link]
2. ^ Lyon, Christopher; James Vinson; Susan Doll; Greg S. Faller (1987). International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers: Writers and production artists. St. James Press. p. 18\. ISBN 9780912289090.
3. ^ "Internet Movie Database - Edna Anhalt". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-05-14.
4. ^ "Edna Anhalt, Hidden in Her Husband's Shadow Despite Her Academy Award". Script. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
5. ^ "BFI -Edna Anhalt". Archived from the original on June 26, 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-26.

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Academy Award for Best Story

* Ben Hecht (1927/28)
* No Award (1928/29)
* No Award (1929/30)
* John Monk Saunders (1930/31)
* Frances Marion (1931/32)
* Robert Lord (1932/33)
* Arthur Caesar (1934)
* Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (1935)
* Pierre Collings and Sheridan Gibney (1936)
* Robert Carson and William Wellman (1937)
* Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary (1938)
* Lewis R. Foster (1939)
* Benjamin Glazer and John Toldy (1940)
* Harry Segall (1941)
* Emeric Pressburger (1942)
* William Saroyan (1943)
* Leo McCarey (1944)
* Charles G. Booth (1945)
* Clemence Dane (1946)
* Valentine Davies (1947)
* Richard Schweizer and David Wechsler (1948)
* Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt (1950)
* James Bernard and Paul Dehn (1951)
* Frank Cavett, Fredric M. Frank and Theodore St. John (1952)
* Dalton Trumbo (1953)
* Philip Yordan (1954)
* Daniel Fuchs (1955)
* Robert Rich (1956)

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