Birthday:
10-13-1914
Deathday:
03-14-1981 (66 years)
Birthplace:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
Eleanor Perry (October 13, 1914 – March 14, 1981) was an American screenwriter and author.
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The Swimmer
Act like Woman at Pool Party (uncredited)
event1968 star_border 7.3
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Well-off ad man Ned Merrill is visiting a friend when he notices the abundance of backyard pools that populate their upscale suburb. Ned suddenly decides that he'd like to travel the eight miles back to his own home by simply swimming across every pool in town. Soon, Ned's journey becomes harrowing; at each house, he is somehow confronted with a reminder of his romantic, domestic and economic failures.
The Story of The Swimmer
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2014
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A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Screenplay
event1970 star_border 6.4
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Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Adaptation
event1968 star_border 7.5
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In this sequel to Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," a boy recalls his life with an elderly cousin in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing
Screenplay
event1973 star_border 5.8
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On the run from her violent husband, Catherine Crocker witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.
The House Without a Christmas Tree
Writer
event1972 star_border 6.4
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A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
David and Lisa
Screenplay
event1962 star_border 7.3
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Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
Ladybug Ladybug
Screenplay
event1963 star_border 6.8
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Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Last Summer
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 6.4
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During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Trilogy
Screenplay
event1969 star_border 6
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Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
A Christmas Memory
Writer
event1966 star_border 6
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As Christmastime approaches in rural, Depression-era Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the impending holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for "people who've struck our fancy." On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and frailer. Based on Truman Capote's autobiographical short story.
David and Lisa
Writer
event1998 star_border 5.5
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A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate emotionally with the young patient is a girl suffering from split personalities who speaks in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who refuses to do the same.
The Thanksgiving Treasure
Writer
event1973 star_border 8
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Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.
Dangerous Partners
Story
event1945 star_border 6.3
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A young couple's accident could make them rich, if they can evade a Nazi spy ring.
The Deadly Trap
Scenario Writer
event1971 star_border 5.3
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An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
ABC Stage 67
Writer (1 ep.)
event1966 star_border 6
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ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals.
It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program.
Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar.
ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967.
"Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
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