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Lucille Fletcher is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Radio Play American born on 28 march 1912 at Brooklyn (USA)

Lucille Fletcher

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Birth name Violet Lucille Fletcher
Nationality USA
Birth 28 march 1912 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 31 august 2000 (at 88 years) at Langhorne (USA)

Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 – August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series. Lucille Fletcher also wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated suspense plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name.

Biography

Early life
Violet Lucille Fletcher was born March 28, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York. Her parents were Matthew Emerson Fletcher, a marine draftsman for the Standard Ship Company (a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey), and Violet (Anderson) Fletcher.

After attending Public School 164 and the Maxwell Training School, Fletcher went to Bay Ridge High School and became president of the Arista honor society and editor of the school magazine. At age 17 she was declared the champion student orator at the regional competition of the National Oratorical Contest on the Constitution of the United States, sponsored by The New York Times at The Town Hall May 17, 1929. The only female finalist in the New York zone, Fletcher received an all-expenses paid trip to South America, a gold medal, a cash prize of $1,000 and an opportunity to compete for the national championship. Fletcher placed third in the national competition May 25, 1929, judged by five justices of the United States Supreme Court, with an address titled, "The Constitution: A Guarantee of the Personal Liberty of the Individual."

Fletcher attended Vassar College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors in 1933.


Career
From 1934 to 1939, Lucille Fletcher worked as a music librarian, copyright clerk and publicity writer at CBS. There she met her future husband, composer Bernard Herrmann, who conducted the CBS orchestra. The couple dated for five years, but delayed marriage due to her parents' objections. They finally married on October 2, 1939.

Fletcher's first success came after one of her magazine stories, "My Client Curly," was adapted for radio by Norman Corwin. It was later adapted for the 1944 Cary Grant film, Once Upon a Time.

According to Fletcher's daughter Dorothy Herrmann (as quoted by the New York Times), Fletcher got the idea for "Sorry, Wrong Number" when a well-dressed woman with an obnoxious manner refused to allow Fletcher to go ahead of her in the line at a local grocery on Manhattan's East Side, although she was buying food for her child, who was sick. Herrmann described the drama as an "Act of revenge".

The radio drama premiered in 1943 and became one of the most legendary radio plays of all time. Agnes Moorehead created the role in the first performance and again in several later radio productions. It was broadcast nationn-wide seven times between 1943 and 1948. Barbara Stanwyck starred in the 1948 film version and, in 1952, performed the original radio play over the airwaves. A 1959 version produced for the CBS radio series Suspense received a 1960 Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama. Two operas were based on the play.

Fletcher and Herrmann collaborated on several projects. He wrote the score for the November 17, 1941, radio presentation of her famous story The Hitch-Hiker on the Orson Welles Show. Fletcher adapted the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights into a libretto for her husband's opera of the same name. He completed the opera in 1951, by which time they had divorced.

Fletcher is interviewed in the 1992 documentary, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, which was nominated for an Academy Award.


Personal life
Lucille Fletcher and Bernard Herrmann had two daughters, Wendy and Dorothy. The couple divorced in 1948, over his affair with her cousin Kathy Lucille (Lucy) Anderson. In 1949, Bernard Herrmann married Lucy.

Fletcher married Douglass Wallop, a writer, on January 6, 1949. They remained married until his death in 1985.

Lucille Fletcher died August 31, 2000, after suffering a stroke.

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Filmography of Lucille Fletcher (7 films)

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Creepshow 2, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, Joe Silver, Tom Savini, Holt McCallany
Rating60% 3.0020453.0020453.0020453.0020453.002045
A delivery truck pulls up to a newsstand in a small town where a young boy named Billy (named after and confused with the boy from Creepshow) arrives eagerly waiting for it. The truck's back shutter opens to reveal a sinister figure who drops off a package onto the sidewalk — the latest issue of Creepshow, much to Billy's delight. As the film momentarily turns into an animation, the package opens of its own accord, (revealing the cover of the comic is the same as the cover in the final scene of the previous film). As Billy begins to read, the delivery man reveals his true identity as the Creepshow Creep.
Empire
Empire (1987)
, 35minutes
Directed by Alexandre Sokourov
Genres Drama, Thriller
Roles Theatre Play
Rating63% 3.174663.174663.174663.174663.17466
Une femme riche, clouée au lit par la maladie, ne peut communiquer que par téléphone. Un jour, un assassin interrompt sa conversation.
Night Watch, 1h39
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw, Linda Hayden, Robert Lang, Tony Britton
Roles Theatre Play
Rating62% 3.149733.149733.149733.149733.14973
Based on a play by Lucille Fletcher, Night Watch is a suspense thriller about a woman named Ellen Wheeler (Elizabeth Taylor), who one night, during a raging thunderstorm, frantically tells her husband John (Laurence Harvey) that from the living room window she has seen a murder being committed in the large old deserted house next door. John calls the police, but a search of the old house turns up nothing.
Blindfold
Blindfold (1966)
, 1h42
Directed by Philip Dunne
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter, Vito Scotti
Roles Novel
Rating61% 3.0997353.0997353.0997353.0997353.099735
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Bartholomew Snow is a government scientist who evidently has had a mental breakdown. General Pratt, a national security chief, hides the patient, Arthur Vicenti, in a remote place known only as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
Sorry, Wrong Number, 1h29
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Harold Vermilyea, Leif Erickson
Rating72% 3.645263.645263.645263.645263.64526
Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the spoiled, bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell (Ed Begley). One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed telephone connection, she hears two men planning a woman's murder. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is scheduled for 11:15, when a passing train will hide any sounds. She calls the telephone company and the police, but with few concrete details, they can do nothing. Complicating matters, her husband Henry (Burt Lancaster) is overdue and their servants have the night off, leaving her all alone in a Manhattan apartment.
Once Upon a Time, 1h29
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about children, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson, William Demarest, John Abbott
Roles Story
Rating60% 3.0491153.0491153.0491153.0491153.049115
Jerry Flynn (Cary Grant) has to come up with $100,000 within a week to keep his theater. By chance, youngster Arthur "Pinky" Thompson (Ted Donaldson) shows him "Curly" (the original title of the film), a caterpillar that gets up on its tail and dances when Pinky plays "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" on his harmonica. Pinky refuses to let Jerry buy his friend, so they become partners. The boy is an orphan being raised by his showgirl sister Jeannie (Janet Blair), so he soon becomes very attached to Jerry, as does his sister.

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Sorry, Wrong Number, 1h29
Directed by Anatole Litvak
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, Burt Lancaster, Wendell Corey, Ed Begley, Harold Vermilyea, Leif Erickson
Roles Radio Play
Rating72% 3.645263.645263.645263.645263.64526
Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) is the spoiled, bedridden daughter of wealthy businessman James Cotterell (Ed Begley). One day, while listening to what seems to be a crossed telephone connection, she hears two men planning a woman's murder. The call cuts off without Leona learning very much other than it is scheduled for 11:15, when a passing train will hide any sounds. She calls the telephone company and the police, but with few concrete details, they can do nothing. Complicating matters, her husband Henry (Burt Lancaster) is overdue and their servants have the night off, leaving her all alone in a Manhattan apartment.