Name Ruth Flippen Role Screenwriter | ||
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Died July 9, 1981, Marina del Rey, California, United States Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series Movies Love Is Better Than Ever, Three Guys Named Mike, Sail a Crooked Ship, Because You're Mine, Everything I Have Is Yours Similar People Jay C Flippen, Stanley Donen, Penny Marshall, Irving Brecher, Robert Z Leonard | ||
03 Ruth Brooks Flippen from How Gidget Got Into the Girl Ghetto - Dr. Rosanne Welch
Ruth Brooks Flippen (1921–1981) was an American screenwriter and television writer.
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- 03 Ruth Brooks Flippen from How Gidget Got Into the Girl Ghetto Dr Rosanne Welch
- Life and career
- Motion pictures
- Television
- References
Life and career
Born Ruth Albertina Brooks on September 14, 1921, in Brooklyn, Flippen was married to character actor Jay C. Flippen on January 4, 1947. The marriage lasted until Jay Flippen's death on February 3, 1971. Ruth Brooks Flippen died on July 9, 1981 in Marina del Rey, California.
Flippen wrote a number of films in the 1950s and early 1960s, including some of the Gidget films, then moved to television where she wrote extensively for the series That Girl and other productions. She was nominated for an 1968 Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy" for the That Girl episode "The Mailman Cometh" and a 1975 Daytime Emmy Award in the category "Outstanding Writing for a Daytime Special Program" for Oh, Baby, Baby, Baby..., a 90-minute drama aired under the aegis of The ABC Afternoon Playbreak.
Flippen was briefly head writer (in 1980) of the soap opera Days of Our Lives