Eleanor Perry

Eleanor Perry

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

Morte : 1981-03-14

História

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

Perfil

Eleanor Perry

Filmes

The Story of the Swimmer
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
David and Lisa
Writer
David and Lisa
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.
Amor Feito de Ódio
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.
Amor Feito de Ódio
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.
Uma Casa Sob as Árvores
Scenario Writer
An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Quando Nem um Amante Resolve
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.
O Último Verão
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.
Enigma de uma Vida
Screenplay
Neddy Merrill tem estado ausente durante a maior parte do verão. Ele reaparece em uma piscina de amigos. Enquanto eles conversam, alguém percebe que há piscinas em todos os vizinhos, abrangendo todo o vale. Ele decide nadar de piscina para piscina por todo o vale. Quando ele para em cada piscina de seu caminho, conta a sua história de vida. Seus amigos estão perplexos com sua determinação em concluir a missão, "nadando em casa", mas foi imediatamente compreendido intuitivamente. Sua paixão é monumental, assim como é monumental o seu esquecimento e décadas de negligência com aqueles que ele tem de mais caro. Sua odisseia o leva de amor e poder a desespero e ruína.
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.