Lenore Coffee

Screenwriter

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Also Known As

Lenore Coffee Cowen, Lenore J. Coffee

Birth Place

San Francisco, California, USA

Born

July 13, 1896

Died

July 02, 1984

Biography

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This veteran Hollywood scenarist with a career dating back to the 1920s collaborated on a number of Cecil B. DeMille films. Coffee worked for various studios, though most notably MGM and Warners for whom she wrote mostly romantic melodramas and suspense thrillers in the 1940s. Her vast credits include "East Lynne" (1925), "Torch Singer" (1933), "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), "Beyond the Fores...

Filmography

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Cash McCall (1960)

The End of the Affair (1955)

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Young at Heart (1954)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

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End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Like Planes On Fire

End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Miserable?

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William J Cowen

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Biography

This veteran Hollywood scenarist with a career dating back to the 1920s collaborated on a number of Cecil B. DeMille films. Coffee worked for various studios, though most notably MGM and Warners for whom she wrote mostly romantic melodramas and suspense thrillers in the 1940s. Her vast credits include "East Lynne" (1925), "Torch Singer" (1933), "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), "Beyond the Forest" (1949), "Young at Heart" and "Footsteps in the Fog" (both 1955). In 1958, her novel "Another Place" was adapted to the screen, one year before she wrote her final screenplay, "Cash McCall."

Filmography

Writer (Feature Film)

Cash McCall (1960)

The End of the Affair (1955)

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Young at Heart (1954)

Sudden Fear (1952)

Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)

Beyond the Forest (1949)

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)

Till We Meet Again (1944)

Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)

Old Acquaintance (1943)

The Gay Sisters (1942)

They Died with Their Boots On (1942)

Additional Dialogue

We Were Dancing (1942)

Contract Writer

The Great Lie (1941)

My Son, My Son! (1940)

The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Four Wives (1939)

Stronger Than Desire (1939)

Contract Writer

Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)

White Banners (1938)

Four Daughters (1938)

Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)

Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935)

Age of Indiscretion (1935)

Evelyn Prentice (1934)

Four Frightened People (1934)

All Men Are Enemies (1934)

Screenplay and dial

Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)

Additional Dialogue

Ready for Love (1934)

Torch Singer (1933)

Downstairs (1932)

Arséne Lupin (1932)

Night Court (1932)

Possessed (1931)

Adapted and dial cont

Honor of the Family (1931)

The Squaw Man (1931)

Mother's Cry (1930)

Additional Dialogue

The Bishop Murder Case (1930)

Adapted, scen and dial

Street of Chance (1930)

Mother's Cry (1930)

Desert Nights (1929)

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

The Night of Love (1927)

Lonesome Ladies (1927)

The Angel of Broadway (1927)

The Night of Love (1927)

For Alimony Only (1926)

For Alimony Only (1926)

The Volga Boatman (1926)

Hell's Highroad (1925)

East Lynne (1925)

Fools' Highway (1924)

The Rose of Paris (1924)

Thundering Dawn (1923)

Temptation (1923)

Daytime Wives (1923)

The Six-Fifty (1923)

Wandering Daughters (1923)

The Age of Desire (1923)

The Right That Failed (1922)

Sherlock Brown (1922)

The Face Between (1922)

Ladyfingers (1921)

Alias Ladyfingers (1921)

The Forbidden Woman (1920)

The Better Wife (1919)

Life Events

1919

Feature debut, received story credit on "The Better Wife", based on her novel "The Love Quest"

1921

First screenplay credit, "Alias Ladyfingers"

1926

First collaboration with Cecil B DeMille, "For Alimony Only"

1959

Final feature sceenplay, "Cash McCall"

Videos

End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Like Planes On Fire Several months into their London wartime affair, with American Maurice (Van Johnson) spotting the first German buzz-bombs, placing events firmly in June, 1944, he and his married lover Sarah (Deborah Kerr) must decide the safest course, in Edward Dmytryk’s The End Of The Affair, 1955, from the Graham Greene novel.

End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Are You Miserable? The war ended and a year after Sarah, his married lover, broke up with him, American writer Maurice (Van Johnson) is back in London where he meets her husband, his friend, Henry MIles (Peter Cushing), who has not been well, Edward Dmytryk directing, on location, from Graham Greene’s novel, in The End Of The Affair, 1955.

End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) The Party In Question John Mills' first scene as London P-I Parkis, meeting and reporting to client Maurice (Van Johnson), who's paying to have his former girlfriend watched, sooner than he expected, in The End Of The Affair, 1955, from Graham Greene's novel.

End Of The Affair, The (1955) -- (Movie Clip) Angry About God Anxious American writer Maurice (Van Johnson), in London awaiting his married English wartime girlfriend Sarah (Deborah Kerr), hewing close to Graham Greene's original novel, in Edward Dmytryk's The End Of The Affair, 1955.

Arsene Lupin (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Call Me Sir! Barrymore brothers (Lionel as detective "Guechard," John as "Duke Of Chamarace" AND the title character,) playing tricks on each other, early in the MGM hit Arsene Lupin, 1932.

Four Daughters (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Right On The Nose Michael Curtiz directing, father (Claude Rains) conducting, Kay (Lane sister Rosemary) singing, Thea (Lola) fretting, Jane (Priscilla) cooking and Emma (Gale Page) assisting, preparing for eligible dinner guest Ben Crowley (Frank McHugh), in Four Daughters, 1938.

Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) He's A Gay Lad, Really Recovering from the week-long party after their impulsive wedding at her Park Avenue spread, flier Pete (George Brent) gets past agent Mason (Grant Mitchell) and friend James (Thurston Hall) to tell pianist Sandra (Mary Astor) that they're not legally married, early in The Great Lie, 1941.

Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) News About Your Friends Aviator Pete (George Brent) swoops into the Maryland home of long-time girlfriend Maggie (Bette Davis), intercepted by maid Violet (Hattie McDaniel), he alone knowing that his much-publicized hasty marriage to a famous pianist is not legal after all, early in The Great Lie, 1941.

Great Lie, The (1941) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Going To Get Him Back Chance encounter at a New York restaurant, Maggie (Bette Davis), now married to flier Pete (George Brent), meets pianist Sandra (Mary Astor), to whom he was almost married, and who has big news, even as he calls with his own update, in The Great Lie, 1941.

Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935) -- (Movie Clip) That Wild Strain Of Blood After a prologue on family history and gypsy blood, Otto Kruger introduces those celebrating the 100th birthday of Lady Paris (May Robson), Violet Kemble Cooper, Henry Stephenson, Lewis Stone, star Helen Hayes, and leading man Robert Montgomery intruding, in MGM’s Vanessa, Her Love Story, 1935.

Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935) -- (Movie Clip) One Wild Night In Persia Days before their wedding, rogue-ish Benji (Robert Montgomery) and cousin Helen Hayes (title character), optimistic, as she explains to her father (Lewis Stone), who hasn’t mentioned his heart condition, when tragic events ensue, in Vanessa, Her Love Story, 1935, adapted from the Hugh Walpole novel.

Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Thought There'd Been An Accident Helen Hayes (title character) from the north country arriving London for her society debut, Lewis Stone her father, Otto Kruger her stuffy suitor and cousin Ellis, and at the event, his proposal, when her dashing and preferred other cousin Benji (Robert Montgomery) arrives, in Vanessa, Her Love Story, 1935.

Four Daughters - (Original Trailer) A small-town family's peaceful life is shattered when one daughter falls for a rebellious musician. Starring Claude Rains and John Garfield, directed by Michael Curtiz.

Footsteps in the Fog - (Original Trailer) An ambitious housemaid (Jean Simmons) learns her employer (Stewart Granger) murdered his wife in Footsteps in the Fog (1955).

Age Of Indiscretion - (Original Trailer) A moralistic publisher (Paul Lukas) discovers his wife (Helen Vinson) is cheating on him in Age of Indiscretion (1935).

Evelyn Prentice - (Original Trailer) MGM playing up The Thin Man angle with Myrna Loy and William Powell, in the original trailer for the melodrama Evelyn Prentice, 1934, co-starring Rosalind Russell.

They Died With Their Boots On -- (Original Trailer) Errol Flynn stars in They Died With Their Boots On (1941), a romanticized biography of General George Armstrong Custer.

White Banners - (Original Trailer graphics) A mysterious woman tries to help her son's foster family without revealing her true identity in White Banners (1938) starring Fay Bainter.

Young At Heart - (Original Trailer) Frank Sinatra and Doris Day are among the very Young At Heart (1955) in this musical version of Four Daughters.

Vanessa: Her Love Story - (Original Trailer) A Victorian wife (Helen Hayes) contemplates leaving her insane husband for a romantic gypsy (Robert Montgomery) in Vanessa: Her Love Story (1935).

Great Lie, The -- (Original Trailer) Bette Davis, believing her husband to be dead, bargains with his former love to adopt the woman's baby in The Great Lie (1941).

Gay Sisters, The - (Original Trailer) Barbara Stanwyck marries a real estate man to save her family's mansion only to discover he's after it as well in The Gay Sisters (1942).

Night Court - (Original Trailer) Walter Huston in one of his most villainous roles as a corrupt judge who goes after a whistleblower with the power of the Night Court (1932).

Cash McCall - (Original Trailer) A corporate spoiler (James Garner) makes a play for a failing company and the owner's daughter in Cash McCall (1960).

Companions

William J Cowen

Husband

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