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Lenore Jackson Coffee (July 13, 1896 – July 2, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.
Lenore J. Coffee. Novelist and screenwriter, educated at Dominican College in San Rafael, California. An avid movie enthusiast in her youth, she came to films after replying to an advertising campaign launched by actress Clara Kimball Young, who was on the lookout for better scripts.
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nov 22, 2023 · Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month's spotlight on prolific TV writer and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Lenore J. Coffee.
Lenore Coffee was a screenwriter in Hollywood from the late silent period through the end of the studio system. Although she wrote original stories, titles, and scenarios and was known for her adaptations of popular women’s fiction, she specialized in repairing the work of others.
The story of Lenore Coffee's entrance into the film business reads like one of her movie scripts. In her early 20s, while employed as an advertising copywriter for a San Francisco department store, Coffee launched an ad campaign so successful that her boss gave her a three-week paid holiday.
Lenore Jackson Coffee (13 July 1896, San Francisco – 2 July 1984, Woodland Hills, California) was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. Coffee began her career when she answered an ad requesting a screen story for the actress Clara Kimball Young and was awarded a one-year contract at $50 a week.
Lenore Coffee is one of the most prolific screenwriters of the silent and sound eras. With eighty-six known produced credits, she worked gigs at every major studio in Hollywood for half a century and survived not only the transition from silent to
