Awards & Winners

Isobel Lennart

Date of Birth 18-May-1915
Place of Birth Brooklyn
(United States of America, New York City, New York, New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Division)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Miss Lennart
Profession Screenwriter, Playwright
Isobel Lennart was an American screenwriter and playwright. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lennart moved to Hollywood, where she was hired to work in the MGM mail room, a job she lost when she attempted to organize a union. She joined the Communist Party in 1939 but left five years later. Lennart's first script, The Affairs of Martha, an original comedy about the residents of a wealthy community who fear their secrets are about to be revealed in an exposé written by one of their maids, was filmed in 1942 with Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, and Richard Carlson. This was followed in quick succession by A Stranger in Town, Anchors Aweigh, and It Happened in Brooklyn. In 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee began an investigation into the motion picture industry. Lennart, who had been blacklisted due to her left-wing leanings, was called to tesitify and named twenty-one individuals she knew had been members of the Communist Party, thus saving her own career. Lennart's later screen credits include A Life of Her Own, Love Me or Leave Me, Merry Andrew, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Sundowners, and Two for the Seesaw.

Awards by Isobel Lennart

Check all the awards nominated and won by Isobel Lennart.

1969


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical
Honored for : Funny Girl

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Funny Girl

1964


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Tony Award for Best Musical Funny Girl

1963


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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Period of Adjustment

1961


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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Drama The Sundowners
Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies

1960


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Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay The Sundowners

1959


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BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1957


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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Meet Me in Las Vegas

1956


Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical
Honored for : Love Me or Leave Me

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Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written Musical Love Me or Leave Me

1955


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Academy Award for Best Screenplay Love Me or Leave Me