Sylvia Bernstein (screenwriter)

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Sylvia Bernstein
Born
Sylvia Frances Bernstein

December 31, 1900
Brooklyn, New York, USA
DiedOctober 22, 1979 (aged 78)
Los Angeles, California, USA
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, playwright
Spouses
  • Louis Banks
  • John Hartley Seid
Parent Isadore Bernstein

Sylvia Bernstein (sometimes credited as Sylvia Bernstein Seid or Sylvia Seid) was an American screenwriter and playwright active in Hollywood in the late 1920s. [1] [2]

He was born in Brooklyn, and her father was screenwriter Isadore Bernstein. [3] She was of Jewish ancestry. [4] She eventually moved out to Los Angeles with her family, where she began working as a screenwriter. She was married twice: first to Louis Banks and then to John Hartley Seid.

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