Mildred Dein (born Mildred Gilrod) was an American screenwriter who worked primarily on genre films during 1950s.

Biography

Born in New York to Jewish immigrants from Russia and Germany, she married writer-director

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in Los Angeles in 1934, and the pair would go on to collaborate on half a dozen films over the next 20 years. The pair also wrote books like 1947's ''The Pencil Is Sharp'' together. For years, they resided in a castle-like home in Los Angeles's Laurel Canyon.

Selected filmography

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Curse of the Undead ''Curse of the Undead'' is a 1959 American horror Western film directed by Edward Dein and starring Eric Fleming, Michael Pate and Kathleen Crowley. Plot In an Old West town, young girls are dying of a mysterious wasting disease. Dr. John ...

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Seven Guns to Mesa ''Seven Guns to Mesa'' is a 1958 Western film directed by Edward Dein. Cast * Charles Quinlivan as John Trey *Lola Albright as Julie Westcott *James Griffith as Papa Clellan *Jay Adler Jay Adler (August 4, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was ...

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Calypso Joe ''Calypso Joe'' is a 1957 American musical film directed by Edward Dein and written by Edward Dein and Mildred Dein. The film stars Herb Jeffries, Angie Dickinson, Ed Kemmer, Stephen Bekassy, Laurie Mitchell and Claudia Drake. The film was release ...

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Shack Out on 101 ''Shack Out on 101'' is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Edward Dein and starring Terry Moore, Frank Lovejoy, Keenan Wynn and Lee Marvin. Plot Slob (Marvin), the lecherous short-order cook at the seaside greasy-spoon diner of sar ...

'' (1955) * '' The Heart and the Sword'' (1953) * ''

Come Die My Love ''Come Die My Love'' (Spanish: ''Manchas de sangre en la luna'') is a 1952 British-Spanish drama film directed by Edward Dein and Luis Marquina and starring Honor Blackman, José Bódalo and Gérard Tichy.de España p.156 It was partly shot in Ta ...

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References

American women screenwriters Screenwriters from New York (state) 1911 births 1997 deaths 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American screenwriters {{US-screen-writer-1910s-stub