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Anne Edwards Dies: Biographer, Screenwriter, Novelist, Actress Was 96
Anne Edwards, dubbed “The Queen of Biography” for her work on best-selling books about the actresses Vivien Leigh and Katharine Hepburn, as well as 14 other celebrity biographies, died …
A child performer on radio and the stage, Ms. Edwards sold her first screenplay in 1949, when she was 22 (the movie “Quantez,” a western starring Fred MacMurray, was released in 1957). Edwards also wrote biographies of Maria Callas, Ronald Reagan, Barbra Streisand and Diana, Princess of Wales. Her screenwriting credits include the British thriller A Question of Adultery(1958), starring Julie London, which was released in the United States as The Case of Mrs. Loring, and, with Sidney Buchman, did early and unused drafts of the screenplay for Funny Girl(1968).
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