Английская Википедия:Fanya Foss
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Fanya Foss (sometimes credited as Fanya Lawrence or F.A. Foss, October 4, 1906 – December 12, 1995) was a Russian Empire-born American screenwriter, short story writer, and television writer active in Hollywood during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. She was married to actor-filmmaker Marc Lawrence, with whom she had a daughter, actress Toni Lawrence (ex-wife of Billy Bob Thornton), and a son, artist Michael Lawrence.
Biography
Fanya was born into a Jewish family[1] in Odesa, Ukraine, in 1906, and moved to New York City with her family when she was a year old.[2] Against her parents' wishes, she married her first husband, the writer Edward Dahlberg, while she was only 17; that marriage would end in divorce.[3] As a talented young singer, she won a scholarship to Juilliard and toured Paris.[4][5] She later married Gordon Kingman (this marriage also ended).[6]
She returned to New York City and took a position as a librarian at Columbia University before she began working at The Brooklyn Eagle as a reporter and then became an editor at a publishing house, where she specialized in travel books.[4][6] Her stint as a literary editor led her to some travels of her own; she left NYC with $25, determined to see the country. During this trip, she ended up working in various bookstores and art shops; while on the road, she learned one of her mystery thriller scripts had sold to RKO.[4]
She met character actor Marc Lawrence while working in Hollywood; the pair were married in Las Vegas in 1942.[7] After the 1940s, she concentrated primarily on writing television, although she did collaborate with her husband on films like 1965's Nightmare in the Sun and 1973's Pigs.[8] The pair lived in Rome in the 1950s to avoid the Hollywood blacklist.[2][9] Fanya was a member of the Screen Writers Guild.[10]
She died in Palm Springs, California, on December 12, 1995.[5][11]
Selected filmography
- Pigs (1972)
- Nightmare in the Sun (1965)
- Why Girls Leave Home (1945)[12]
- Hi Ya, Sailor (1943)
- The Stork Pays Off (1941)
- The Richest Man in Town (1941)[13]
- Affectionately Yours (1941)[14]
- Girls Under 21 (1940)
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