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Ernest Lehman

Ernest Lehman
Born
Ernest Paul Lehman

(1915-12-08)December 8, 1915
DiedJuly 2, 2005(2005-07-02) (aged 89)
Burial placeWestwood Village Memorial Park
Alma materCity College of New York (BA)
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • producer
  • director
Known forHello, Dolly!
The King and I
North by Northwest
Sabrina
The Sound of Music
Sweet Smell of Success
West Side Story
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Spouses
Jacqueline Shapiro
(m. 1942; died 1994)
Laurie Sherman
(m. 1997)
Children3

Ernest Paul Lehman[1] (December 8, 1915 – July 2, 2005) was an American screenwriter and film producer.[2] He was nominated six times for Academy Awards for his screenplays during his career, but did not win.[2] At the 73rd Academy Awards in 2001, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his achievements and his influential works for the screen. He was the first screenwriter to receive that honor.

He received two Edgar Awards of the Mystery Writers of America for screenplays of suspense films he wrote for director Alfred Hitchcock: North by Northwest (1959), his only original screenplay, and Family Plot (1976), one of numerous adaptations.

  1. ^ "Ernest Lehman Biography (c. 1915-)". www.filmreference.com. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Fox, Margalit (July 6, 2005). "Ernest Lehman, 89, Who Wrote 'North by Northwest,' Dies". The New York Times.

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