Elizabeth Beecher
Elizabeth Beecher | |
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| Born | February 19, 1898 Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
| Died | March 8, 1973 (aged 75) Burbank, California, USA |
| 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.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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]
Career
[edit | edit source]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 Seas 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]
Filmography
[edit | edit source]Television
[edit | edit source]- The Cisco Kid (various)[3]
Movies
[edit | edit source]- Bullets and Saddles, 1943 (writer)[4]
- Rough Riders of Cheyenne, 1945 (writer)[5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]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]
References
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External links
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