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American screenwriter
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Female
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25 June 1892(Seattle, King County, Washington, USA)
Death:
6 March 1974(Seattle, King County, Washington, USA)
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Biography
Introduction
Adelaide Heilbron was an American screenwriter known for films like The Dressmaker from Paris and Lessons for Wives.
Biography
Adelaide Heilbron was born into a prominent Seattle family. Her parents were George H. Heilbron (editor at The Seattle Post Intelligencer) and Adelaide Elizabeth Piper (daughter of W.H. Piper, a well-known Boston bookstore owner). Heilbron graduated from Smith College in 1920 and got her start in the film industry providing coverage for Famous Players-Lasky in New York, moving into script supervising before becoming a screenwriter.
Partial filmography
- At the End of the World (1921)
- Lilies of the Field (1924)
- New Lives for Old (1925)
- Mantrap (1926)
- Syncopating Sue (1926)
- Heart to Heart (1928)
- The Butter and Egg Man (1928)
- Captain Swagger (1928)
- My Sin (1931)
- Misleading Lady (1932)
- It's All Yours (1937)
- Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
- Friendly Enemies (1942)
- Faces in the Fog (1944)