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Frances Kavanaugh (February 5, 1915 – January 23, 2009) was an American screenwriter known for penning B-Westerns.
Frances Kavanaugh, one of the few women who wrote screenplays for B-westerns such as “Song of Old Wyoming” and “Wild West” in the 1940s and early ‘50s, has died. She was 93. Kavanaugh died Jan....
Feb 6, 2023 · Frances Kavanaugh’s story paints a different picture of 1940s Hollywood screenwriting than most academic histories. Fondly remembered as the ‘Cowgirl of the Typewriter’ by fans and aficionados of the American West, Kavanaugh wrote around thirty B Westerns for companies like Monogram and Producers Releasing Corporation.
Known as the “Cowgirl of the Typewriter,” Frances Kavanaugh Hecker was one of the few women writing western screenplays in Hollywood, a primarily male-dominated profession. Born in Dallas, Texas, she grew up around ranching in Houston which gave her what she called “the feeling of Westerns.”
Jul 5, 2022 · Frances Kavanaugh Hecker died on January 23, 2009, from lymphoma in Encino, California. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles County. In 2014 she was posthumously inducted into the Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
2014 National Cowgirl Hall of Fame Honoree - Frances Kavanaugh induction video and acceptance speech on behalf of her husband, Robert L. Hecker.
Frances Kavanaugh. Writer. 5 February 1915 to 23 January 2009. A successful screenwriter of B westerns at Monogram Pictures, Kavanaugh created the character of Lash La Rue, a whip-wielding cowboy who debuted in Song of Old Wyoming (1945).
