Elizabeth Beecher | |
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Born | Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA | February 19, 1898
Died | March 8, 1973 75) Burbank, California, USA | (aged
Education | Syracuse University |
Occupation | Screenwriter |
Elizabeth Beecher was an American screenwriter best known for her work on Western-themed movies and television shows in the 1940s and 1950s.
Beecher was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and is a descendant of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin . She graduated from Syracuse University in 1920 with majors in English and history. [1]
Beecher worked as a news reporter and writer for the Syracuse Journal , San Francisco Chronicle , and the New York American . [1] She moved to Hollywood in 1937, where she took up work as a freelance writer. She began writing screenplays for Western film producers as well as television shows such as Lassie and The Gene Autry Show . [1]
Outside of film, Beecher wrote comic and children's books, including adaptions of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Tonka [2] for the Walt Disney Company. [1] Additional writings included a cookbook of early American family recipes, seven Little Golden Books, four Big Golden Books, and The Bar-Twenty Cowboy, a book selected for inclusion in the Children's Library at the British Museum. [1] She also rewrote or ghost wrote more than 100 manuscripts. [1]
Beecher died on March 3, 1973, in Burbank, California. She was survived by her son, Guy Snowden Miller; her sister, Dorothy Shidler; her grandson, Gene; and her granddaughter, Kerry. [1]
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