Eleanor Perry

Eleanor Perry

Birth : 1914-10-13, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Death : 1981-03-14

History

Eleanor Perry (October 13, 1914 – March 14, 1981) was an American screenwriter and author.

Profile

Eleanor Perry

Movies

The Story of the Swimmer
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
David and Lisa
Writer
A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate emotionally with the young patient is a girl suffering from split personalities who speaks in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who refuses to do the same.
The Thanksgiving Treasure
Writer
Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Producer
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Screenplay
On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
The House Without a Christmas Tree
Writer
A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
The Deadly Trap
Scenario Writer
An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Screenplay
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
Last Summer
Screenplay
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Trilogy
Screenplay
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
The Swimmer
Screenplay
Well-off ad man Ned Merrill is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures.
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Adaptation
Adaptation of Truman Capote's short story. A sequel, from the same filmmakers, to the critically acclaimed A Christmas Memory (1966).
A Christmas Memory
Writer
Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Later released in the anthology film Trilogy (1969) along with two other Capote adaptations by Frank and Eleanor Perry.
Ladybug Ladybug
Screenplay
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
David and Lisa
Screenplay
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
Dangerous Partners
Story
A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.