Jay Presson Allen was among other things a screenwriter, television producer and novelist. She was one of few women making a living as a screenwriter at a time when women were a rarity in the profession. She was born as Jacqueline Presson, the only child of Willie Mae, a buyer, and Albert Jack Presson, a department store merchant. She wrote the screenplay for Lord of the Flies (1990) under the pseudonym Sara Schiff.
This documentary premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Explore the challenging world of the screenwriter with renowned industry writers.
Release Date:2008-01-01
The true story behind the Prince of the City.
Release Date:2007-01-01
Character:Self
A collection of interviews recorded for the making of the 1995 documentary "The Celluloid Closet," on the subject of LGBT representation in film history.
Release Date:2001-05-29
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
This hour long documentary on the making of Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" incorporates the usual melange of contemporary interviews with surviving participants and liberal helpings of film clips and production shots. It also presents a nice selection of script pages and memos as well. In the former category we find cast members 'Tippi' Hedren, Diane Baker, and Louise Latham, rejected screenwriters Joseph Stefano and Evan Hunter, final screenwriter Jay Presson Allen, daughter Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, production designer Robert Boyle, makeup artist Howard Smit, unit manager Hilton Green, Hitchcock historian Robin Wood, composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven C. Smith, and Hitchcock fan/filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich. An entertaining account of the film's production, the participants offer loads of valuable information and anecdotes. Highly enjoyable for Hitchcock fans and the film's growing number of admirers.
Release Date:2000-05-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
What "That's Entertainment" did for movie musicals, "The Celluloid Closet" does for Hollywood homosexuality, as this exuberant, eye-opening movie serves up a dazzling hundred-year history of the role of gay men and lesbians have had on the silver screen. Lily Tomlin narrates as Oscar-winning moviemaker Rob Epstein ("The Times of Harvey Milk" and "Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt") and Jeffrey Friedman assemble fabulous footage from 120 films showing the changing face of cinema sexuality, from cruel stereotypes to covert love to the activist triumphs of the 1990s. Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein and Gore Vidal are just a few of the many actors, writers and commentators who provide funny and insightful anecdotes.
Release Date:1996-01-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:103
When their plane crashes, 25 schoolboys find themselves trapped on a tropical island, miles from civilization.
Release Date:1990-03-16
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:558
A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.
Release Date:1988-06-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.
Release Date:1982-12-08
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:651
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
Release Date:1982-03-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:267
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Release Date:1981-08-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:159
A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
Release Date:1980-10-24
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:27
A television producer woman tries to let down her overbearing boyfriend who is her boss. She wants to marry with a young writer.
Release Date:1980-01-18
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:14
Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.
Release Date:1978-01-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:7
The lives of the middle-class Lawrence family in Pasadena, California.
Release Date:1976-03-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:14
Famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the Great Depression she has trouble finding work as an artist, but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns a nightclub.
Release Date:1975-03-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:64
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.
Release Date:1973-12-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions.
Release Date:1973-06-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:15
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
Release Date:1972-12-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:36
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
Release Date:1972-02-13
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:894
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
Release Date:1969-02-24
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Vote Count:112
Marnie is a thief, a liar, and a cheat. When her new boss, Mark Rutland, catches on to her routine kleptomania, she finds herself being blackmailed.
Release Date:1964-07-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1129
Husband and wife Bill and Bertie Austin and their daughter live in a low-rent apartment. He's a struggling writer, at least until agent Lucinda Ford breaks the news that she's sold his book to a publisher, including the rights to turn it into a Broadway play. A new house in Connecticut is the first way to celebrate. But during the long hours Bill is away working on the play, Bertie befriends hard-drinking neighbor Fran Cabrell and her boyfriend Wylie, who plant seeds of suspicion in Bertie's mind that Bill and his beautiful agent might be more than just business partners. Bertie jealously retaliates by flirting with Gar Aldrich, an actor who will be in her husband's play. Bill goes to Connecticut for a heart-to-heart talk, finds Gar there and punches him.
Release Date:1963-08-29
Department:Writing
Job:Theatre Play
Vote Count:7
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date:1955-10-02
Character:Self - Screenwriter
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:224