Edna Anhalt
Edna Anhalt was an American screenwriter, television writer, and film producer.
Biography
Together with then-husband Edward Anhalt, she enjoyed some considerable success in a 10-year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Academy Award for Best Story win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in [the Streets |Panic in the Streets], and another nomination two years later for The Sniper. She also wrote the screenplays to The [Member of the Wedding |The Member of the Wedding], Not as a Stranger and The Pride and the Passion, which was her last film credit.Following her divorce from Edward, she later moved into television script-writing and wrote episodes for anthologies The Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theatre, and The Virginian.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role |
| 1947 | Bulldog Drummond [Strikes Back |Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back] | Script |
| 1948 | The Younger Brothers | Script |
| 1948 | Embraceable You | Script |
| 1950 | Panic in the Streets | From a Story By |
| 1950 | Sierra | Screenplay |
| 1950 | Return of the Frontiersman | Screenplay |
| 1952 | My Six Convicts | Associate Producer |
| 1952 | Eight Iron Men | Associate Producer |
| 1952 | The Sniper | Associate Producer. Original Story |
| 1953 | The Member of [the Wedding |The Member of the Wedding] | Associate Producer, Script |
| 1955 | Not as a Stranger | Script |
| 1957 | The Hole Card | Teleplay |
| 1957 | The Pride and the Passion | Screen Story and Screenplay by |