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Phoebe Ephron (née Wolkind; January 26, 1914 – October 13, 1971) was an American playwright and screenwriter, who often worked with Henry Ephron, her husband, whom she wed in 1934. Ephron was born in New York City to Louis and Kate (née Lautkin) Wolkind, a dress manufacturer. Her family is Jewish.
Nov 16, 2022 · Script contributor Dr. Rosanne Welch celebrates the female screenwriters who came before us with this month's spotlight on prolific screenwriter and playwright Phoebe Ephron. Dr. Rosanne Welch. Nov 16, 2022. In 1914 Phoebe Wolkind was born in New York City.
Oct 14, 1971 · Mrs. Phoebe Wolkind Ephron, who with her hushand Henry Ephron had been successful Broadway and Hollywood writer since 1943, died yesterday after a long illness at their home, 176 East 71st...
Phoebe Ephron was born on 26 January 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), Carousel (1956) and Daddy Long Legs (1955). She was married to Henry Ephron. She died on 13 October 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.
Phoebe Ephron was a full-time professional playwright and screenwriter, and was also the mother of four daughters, all of whom became professional writers. Phoebe Ephron attended Hunter College before meeting her future husband and collaborator, Henry Ephron, in 1933.
Born Phoebe Wolkind in New York 1914, she was active as a playwright and screenwriter, often together with her husband, Henry Ephron, from the early 1940s through the early 1960s. Her four daughters – Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Hallie Ephron and Amy Ephron – all became writers, like their parents.
Nora’s writer mother Phoebe taught her that “everything is copy.” Even as she was dying, she ordered Nora to take notes. All four Ephron daughters became writers, but Nora, named for the door-slamming heroine of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, most of all mined her own life and those
