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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ernest Lehman
		Lehman's most important contribution to Hollywood as a writer was his ingenious screenplay for the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film, "North By Northwest", which starred Cary Grant as a Madison Avenue advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies including James Mason and Martin Landau.
		Lehman died at UCLA Medical Center after a prolonged illness and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
		Lehman essentially retired from his scriptwriting in 1979, His last project was a TV miniseries adaptation of the novel "The French Atlantic Affair." "Sabrina" was remade in 1995.
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	ernest lehman dead at 89
		Acclaimed screenwriter Ernest Lehman died on Saturday, July 2, in Los Angeles at UCLA Medical Center at the age of 89 after a lengthy illness.
		Over several decades, Lehman had been actively involved with the Writers Guild, including serving as WGAw president from 1983 to 1985, as well as on the WGAw board (1954-56, 1961-70, vice president of the Screen Branch [1965-67], and 1980-83).
		When Lehman received his honorary Oscar on March 25, 2001 ("in appreciation of a varied and enduring body of work"), he was the first screenwriter ever to be so honored, telling the audience: "I accept this rarest of honors on behalf of screenwriters everywhere, but especially those in the Writers Guild of America.
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	Ernest Lehman - Films as writer:, Other films:
		Given that Ernest Lehman has scripted some of the most Oscar-laden films ever made, it comes as something of a surprise to realize that he has never won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay—several nominations, but no Oscar.
		Lehman himself might well, with a rueful shrug, adduce the fact as further evidence for the persistent undervaluing of the writer's contribution to any movie, good or bad.
		Lehman's script for North by Northwest has a good claim to be the finest ever written for a Hitchcock film.
	www.filmreference.com /Writers-and-Production-Artists-Kr-Lo/Lehman-Ernest.html (920 words)

	Ernest Lehman - Biography - Moviefone
		In an era where the reputation of a writer was built in the literary world, Lehman's choice to pursue a full-time career in screenwriting was viewed by more than a few as a prostitution of his talents -- but Lehman went his own way.
		Lehman's last screenplay was for the 1977 John Frankenheimer thriller Black Sunday, though the writer's novel The French Atlantic Affair was adapted into a television miniseries in 1979 and his original screenplay for Sabrina was resurrected for a 1995 remake starring Harrison Ford.
		Lehman served as president of the Writer's Guild of America from 1983-1985.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/ernest-lehman/99232/biography (555 words)

	Ernest Lehman at AllExperts
		Ernest Lehman (born December 8, 1915 in New York City - died July 2 2005 in Los Angeles, California) was a successful screenwriter in Hollywood.
		Lehman was born into a wealthy Long Island family whose fortunes were seriously affected by the Great Depression.
		Lehman died at UCLA Medical Center after a prolonged illness and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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	Famed screenwriter Ernest Lehman dies
		Lehman was brought to Hollywood in the early 1950s by Paramount Pictures and John Houseman just as the industry was beginning to fear the impact of TV.
		Lehman was born Dec. 8, 1915 on Long Island, N.Y. His family was affluent until hit by the Depression.
		Although he became highly regarded as a adapter of stage plays, Lehman was in the distinct minority in Hollywood in his belief in the cinematic potential of Edward Albee's profane stage play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" While most considered the play too dark, Lehman found a supporter in Warner Bros. executive Jack Warner.
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	Ernest Lehman
		Lehman wrote perhaps his finest screenplay, "North by Northwest" (1959), for Alfred Hitchcock.
		Lehman's other multiple collaborations were with Mark Robson ("From the Terrace" 1960 and "The Prize" 1963) and with John Frankenheimer, who directed a Rod Serling adaptation of a Lehman novelette, "The Comedian" (1957), for "Playhouse 90" and shared screenwriting credit on "Black Sunday" (1976).
		Lehman learned to leave the sound stage, taking full advantage of the streets, and his movie musicals, particularly "The King and I" (1956), "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music" are a big part of his legacy.
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	The Ernest Lehman Collection: Harry Ransom Center
		Ernest Lehman's first professional written work, a profile of Ted Lewis, the famous top-hatted bandleader, was published in Collier's magazine in 1939.
		It was in 1952 that fiction writer and journalist Ernest Lehman was brought out from New York to Hollywood by Paramount Pictures to become a screenwriter.
		Lehman's screenplay was his third with director Robert Wise, and earned him his third Writers Guild Award and his third Academy Award nomination.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /collections/film/holdings/lehman (0 words)

	Ernest Lehman voted honorary Academy Award
		Beverly Hills, CA - Screenwriter-producer-director Ernest Lehman has been voted an Honorary Award by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy President Robert Rehme announced today.
		In 1952, fiction writer and journalist Lehman came to Hollywood to become a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures.
		Lehman's Honorary Award will be presented at the 73rd Academy Awards Presentation on March 25, 2001, at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2001/01.01.25.html (0 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Screenwriter Ernest Lehman dies
		Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, whose films include such classic musicals as The Sound of Music and West Side Story, died on Saturday at the age of 89.
		Lehman was president of the Writers' Guild of America from 1983 to 1985.
		Lehman died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after a lengthy illness.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4655847.stm (0 words)

	WarrenZevon.com - RIP Ernest Lehman
		Lehman's resume is pretty extensive, with a lot of great work.
		As a grad student in Austin, I had the chance to see a collection of Ernest Lehman's papers (which had been donated to UT), and it was one of the best experiences of my time there.
		It was a rare chance to glimpse what goes on in a writer's head, and I came away with a greater appreciation for the creative process, and for film in general.
	www.warrenzevon.com /cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1120787594/4 (337 words)

	In Remembrance- Ernest Lehman
		Ernest Lehman, the six-time Academy Award nominated screenwriter behind such films as Sweet Smell Of Success and North By Northeast as well as several stage to film adaptations, has passed away on July 2, 2005 in Los Angeles, CA.
		Lehman accepted and the result was the thriller North By Northeast (1959), which earned Lehman his second Oscar nomination and his fifth Writers Guild award.
		Lehman reportedly fought to have the unproven Mike Nichols named director, as well as had Haskell Wexler replace the film’s original cinematographer who had attempted to “beautify” an intentionally de-glamorized Elizabeth Taylor.
	www.filmbuffonline.com /InRemembrance/ErnestLehman.htm (996 words)

	Ernest Lehman - Alfred Hitchcock DVD Wiki
		Lehman felt that freelancing was a "very nervous way to make a living" so he began writing copy for a publicity firm which focused on plays and celebrities.
		Lehman's most important contribution to Hollywood as a writer was his ingenious screenplay for the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock film, "North By Northwest", which starred Cary Grant as a Madison Avenue advertising executive who is mistaken for a government agent by a group of spies including James Mason and Martin Landau.
		In addition to screenwriting, Lehman tried his hand at producing, and was among a distinct few in Hollywood who had faith in a film adaptation of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
	www.daveyp.com /hitchcock/wiki/Ernest_Lehman (547 words)

	Ernest Lehman, 89, Who Wrote 'North by Northwest,' Dies - New York Times
		Ernest Lehman, a noted Hollywood screenwriter whose work included classic films of the 1950's and 60's like "North by Northwest," "Sweet Smell of Success" and "The Sound of Music," died on Saturday in Los Angeles.
		Lehman received a lifetime achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; he was the first screenwriter to be so honored.
		Ernest Paul Lehman was born in Manhattan on Dec. 8, 1915, and raised in Woodmere, N.Y. He earned a bachelor's degree from City College in New York and began a career as a freelance fiction writer for popular magazines.
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	Ernest Lehman; six-time Oscar nominee; 89 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Ernest Lehman, a six-time Oscar nominee whose screenwriting and production credits include such classics as "North by Northwest," "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music," has died.
		Lehman as "a creative giant among writers and within the industry" for his work on a host of famous movie and musical scripts.
		Lehman is survived by his wife, Laurie; their son, Jonathan; his sons Roger and Alan from his late first wife, Jackie; and two grandchildren.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050707/news_1m7lehman.html (393 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes: Ernest Lehman Celebrity Profile
		Veteran screenwriter / producer Ernest Lehman passed away on July 2nd after a lengthy illness.
		Lehman was nominated for a half-dozen Oscars over the course of his illustrious career, but the only one he ever brought home was a 2001 Honorary Oscar "in appreciation of a body of varied and enduring work."
		There are no Ernest Lehman user fan sites.
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	» Ernest Lehman - Alternative Film Guide (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During that period, Lehman’s only artistic letdown was the overwrought 1960 family melodrama From the Terrace, which he adapted from John O’Hara’s novel for director Mark Robson, and stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.
		Lehman ended his screenwriting career with two screenplays for minor films - Hitchcock’s swan song, the crime caper Family Plot (1976), and, sharing credit with Kenneth Ross and Ivan Moffat, John Frankenheimer’s Black Sunday (1977), about the threat of a terrorist attack during the Super Bowl.
		Ernest Lehman died at age 89 on July 2, 2005, at Los Angeles’ UCLA Medical Center.
	www.altfg.com /screenwriters/ernest-lehman.htm (2538 words)

	JBFC Film Series: Ernest Lehman
		In a single 12-year stretch of his career, from 1954 through 1966, Lehman wielded as golden a pen as anyone who’s ever written for the screen, collaborating on works that were not only huge hits in their day, but are timeless in their appeal.
		Lehman found the spark for the plot of this noirish tribute to tabloid Manhattan in his experience working for a Broadway publicity firm.
		Lehman’s insightful screenplay is based on Graziano’s autobiography recounting his rise from hoodlum to world boxing champ with the help of a tough coach and the love of a good woman (Pier Angeli).
	www.burnsfilmcenter.org /films/0608series_ernestlehman.html (920 words)

	Playbill News: Ernest Lehman, Screenwriter of "The Sound of Music" and "West Side Story," Dead at 89
		Ernest Lehman, the screenwriter to helped expand The Sound of Music and West Side Story to the big screen, died July 2 in Los Angeles at the age of 89, according to The New York Times.
		Lehman's screenplay credits were "North by Northwest" and (with Clifford Odets) "Sweet Smell of Success." The latter was drawn from a novella ("Tell Me About It Tomorrow," 1950) he had written based on his experience working for famed press agent Irving Hoffman in Depression-era Manhattan.
		Lehman's screenplay of "West Side Story," the storytelling of which is also slightly different than on stage (the order of musical numbers is changed, and one ballet was excised).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/93885.html (683 words)

	Ernest Lehman; Writer For Films
		Ernest Lehman, 89, who died July 2 in Los Angeles after an apparent heart attack, was a Hollywood screenwriter of astonishing range: embittered drama ("Sweet Smell of Success"), sophisticated suspense ("North by Northwest") and the fearlessly sentimental ("The Sound of Music").
		Ernest Lehman and Alfred Hitchcock discuss the crop-duster sequence in "North by Northwest," one of Lehman's rare original scripts.
		Ernest Paul Lehman was born Dec. 8, 1915, in New York.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/06/AR2005070602125.html (488 words)

	Screenwriter Ernest Lehman dies - Entertainment
		Lehman died Saturday at University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center from an undisclosed illness, according to a statement posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Writers Guild of America, West.
		Lehman's career began in 1954 with "Executive Suite," and went on to span a variety of genres.
		Lehman is survived by his wife, Laurie; their son, Jonathan; and his sons, Roger and Alan, from his late first wife, Jackie; and two grandchildren.
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	Muere Ernest Lehman, guionista de 'West Side Story' (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Después de haber comenzado a escribir en la prensa financiera en Wall Street, Ernest Lehman, nacido en Nueva York, se inclinó por los guiones, destacando sobre todo a comienzos de los años 50 en la Paramount antes de empezar a escribir para la Metro Goldwyn Mayer en 1954.
		Lehman firmó también el guión del clásico 'Quién teme a Virgina Woolf', de Mike Nichols (1966) y protagonizado por Elizabeth Taylor y Richard Burton.
		Ernest Lehman fue nominado cuatro veces a los Oscars por su trabajo como guionista y dos veces como productor, pero nunca consiguió una estatuilla dorada por una película, sino que fue premiado con el Oscar honorífico de 2001.
	www.iblnews.com /story.php?id=795 (295 words)

	The Screenwriting Life » Blog Archive » Ernest Lehman, R.I.P. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Screenwriting Life » Blog Archive » Ernest Lehman, R.I.P. Ernest Lehman, R.I.P. Legendary scribe Ernest Lehman died on Saturday of a heart attack at UCLA Medical Center.
		Lehman was truly a master of the form.
		He won five Writers Guild Awards, was nominated for six Oscars, including the honorary award he received in 2001, and served as WGA president from 1983 to 1985.
	www.screenwritinglife.com /ernest-lehman-rip (688 words)

	Ernest Lehman \| Obituaries \| Guardian Unlimited
		At a time when prominent authors regarded Hollywood as a place in which to make money, an artistic exile, Ernest Lehman, who has died aged 89, was the first noted writer consciously to pursue screenwriting as his main vocation.
		Lehman was born to prosperous middle-class parents in Long Island and grew up in New York before attending its City College, where he had unwisely chosen science.
		A hypochondriac most of his life, Lehman was nevertheless healthy enough to father a child in January 2002 with his second wife Laurie, 50 years his junior.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1522740,00.html (778 words)

	PopMatters Film Feature \| Solidly Constructed: Ernest Lehman, 1915-2005
		Ernest Lehman excelled at the difficult and notoriously thankless task of translating stage musicals to the screen.
		Lehman excelled as well at the difficult and notoriously thankless task of translating stage musicals to the screen.
		Lehman retired from screenwriting in 1979, returning only to work on occasional television projects.
	www.popmatters.com /film/features/050729-lehmanernest.shtml (1157 words)

	Ernest Lehman - Filmogs Profile
		Ernest Lehman Biography: One of the most critically and commercially successful screenwriters in Hollywood history, Lehman grew up on Long Island, graduated from NY's City College.
		He freelanced short stories for the likes of Collier's magazine and one of these fiction piece 'The Comedian' led to his first job in Hollywood as a screenwriter for Paramount in the mid 1950s.
		Nick Roddick, in Dictionary of Literary Biography, praised Lehman as "a champion of the well-crafted, what-happens-next screenplay." Served as president of the Writers Guild of America from 1983-85.
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