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Occupation
  
Screenwriter

Name
  
Elizabeth Meehan

Role
  
Screenwriter


Born
  
22 August 1894
Isle of Wight United Kingdom

Died
  
April 24, 1967, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
Twentieth-Century American Writers

Movies
  
Oliver Twist, Harmony Lane, Out of This World, Storm Over Lisbon, The Telephone Girl

Similar People
  
Herbert Brenon, Leo Tover, Albert de Courville, Roy William Neill, Joseph Santley

Elizabeth Meehan (22 August 1894 – 24 April 1967) was a British screenwriter who worked in both Britain and Hollywood. During the late 1930s she was employed by the studio head Walter C. Mycroft to work for British International Pictures. Meehan frequently collaborated with the Irish director Herbert Brenon.

Selected filmography

  • The Great Gatsby (1926)
  • Sorrell and Son (1927)
  • The Telephone Girl (1927)
  • Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
  • The Rescue (1929)
  • The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1930)
  • Lummox (1930)
  • Beau Ideal (1931)
  • Oliver Twist (1933)
  • West of Singapore (1933)
  • Harmony Lane (1935)
  • Spring Handicap (1937)
  • Over She Goes (1938)
  • Star of the Circus (1938)
  • Housemaster (1938)
  • A Gentleman's Gentleman (1939)
  • Parachute Nurse (1942)
  • Storm Over Lisbon (1944)
  • Northwest Outpost (1947)
  • References

    Elizabeth Meehan Wikipedia