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Edgar Allan Woolf (April 25, 1881 – December 9, 1943) was an American lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-author of the script for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
Edgar Allan Woolf was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is mostly remembered as a co-writer of the fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Woolf was born in New York City to inventor Albert E. Woolf and his wife Rosamond Wimpfheimer.
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Edgar Allan Woolf (25 April 1881 – 9 December 1948) was one of the screenwriters primarily responsible for the script of the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz. Woolf started as a playwright, penning comedies and farces (three of which boasted music by Jerome Kern).
Edgar Allan Woolf is the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (4.00 avg rating, 457543 ratings, 17571 reviews, published 1900) and The Wizard of Oz Scree...
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Dec 24, 2019 · Edgar Allan Woolf as a young man. Before writing scripts and immediately after graduating from Columbia University in 1901, Woolf had tried his hand as an actor with some success.
Nov 15, 2021 · The final credits on the film read “Screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf. Adaptation by Noel Langley.” The story behind the scripts provides insight into the movie-making creative process and Hollywood screenwriting in the late 1930s.
Edgar Allan Woolf (25 April 1881 – 9 December 1943) was a lyricist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-author of the script for the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Woolf was the son of Albert E. Woolf, a feather works employee, a manufacturer of disinfectant and an inventor of electrical devices, and Rosamond Wimpfheimer Woolf.
