Isobel Lennart

Playwright, Film story contributor

1915 – 1971

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Who was Isobel Lennart?

Isobel Lennart was an American screenwriter and playwright.

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lennart moved to Hollywood, where she was hired to work in the MGM mail room, a job she lost when she attempted to organize a union. She joined the Communist Party in 1939 but left five years later.

Lennart's first script, The Affairs of Martha, an original comedy about the residents of a wealthy community who fear their secrets are about to be revealed in an exposé written by one of their maids, was filmed in 1942 with Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, and Richard Carlson. This was followed in quick succession by A Stranger in Town, Anchors Aweigh, and It Happened in Brooklyn.

In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee began an investigation into the motion picture industry. Lennart, who had been blacklisted due to her left-wing leanings, was called to tesitify and named twenty-one individuals she knew had been members of the Communist Party, thus saving her own career.

Lennart's later screen credits include A Life of Her Own, Love Me or Leave Me, Merry Andrew, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Sundowners, and Two for the Seesaw.

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Born
May 18, 1915
Brooklyn
Also known as
  • Miss Lennart
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  • United States of America
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  • Brooklyn
Died
Jan 25, 1971
Hemet

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on July 23, 2013

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