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British novelist and screenwriter
Claudine West
Born 16 January 1890 Died 11 April 1943 Other names Ivy Claudine Godber Occupation Screenwriter Years active 1929–1943 (film)
Claudine West (16 January 1890 – 11 April 1943) was a British
novelist and
screenwriter who was a three-time
Academy Award nominee.
[1]
[2] She moved to
Hollywood in 1929, and was employed by
MGM on many films, including some of their biggest productions of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
She frequently wrote scripts in European settings,
[3] including British-themed films
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (nominated for an Academy Award)
[3] and
The White Cliffs of Dover .
[4]
In 1942, West won an Oscar for her work on World War II drama
Mrs. Miniver .
[3]
[5]
Personal life
West was born on 16 January 1884
[3] in
Nottingham, England .
[6]
West died in
Beverly Hills, California on 12 April 1943 after "a long illness."
[6]
[3]
Selected filmography
References
^ Calder p.255
^ Zauzmer, Ben (2018-03-02).
"Writing Their Way Into a Diverse Oscars" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-09-17 .
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b
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e
f Wilson, Scott (2016-08-19).
Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed . McFarland.
ISBN
978-1-4766-2599-7 .
^ "
Claudine West ". BFI (British Film Institute), retrieved online October 17, 2018.
^ Cameron, Kate. "
'Mrs. Miniver' is a stirring film on WWII’s toll on a family: 1942 review ". New York, New York: New York Daily News , February 17, 2015.
^
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b Ellenberger, Allan R. (2001-05-01).
Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory . McFarland.
ISBN
978-0-7864-0983-9 .
Bibliography
Calder, Robert L. Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945 . McGill-Queen's Press, 2004.
External links
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1928–1950
Benjamin Glazer (1928)
Hanns Kräly (1929)
Frances Marion (1930)
Howard Estabrook (1931)
Edwin J. Burke (1932)
Victor Heerman and
Sarah Y. Mason (1933)
Robert Riskin (1934)
Dudley Nichols (1935)
Pierre Collings and
Sheridan Gibney (1936)
Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and
Norman Reilly Raine (1937)
Ian Dalrymple ,
Cecil Arthur Lewis ,
W. P. Lipscomb , and
George Bernard Shaw (1938)
Sidney Howard (1939)
Donald Ogden Stewart (1940)
Sidney Buchman and
Seton I. Miller (1941)
George Froeschel ,
James Hilton ,
Claudine West , and
Arthur Wimperis (1942)
Philip G. Epstein ,
Julius J. Epstein , and
Howard Koch (1943)
Frank Butler and
Frank Cavett (1944)
Charles Brackett and
Billy Wilder (1945)
Robert Sherwood (1946)
George Seaton (1947)
John Huston (1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950)
1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–present