Sylvia Thalberg

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American screenwriter

Places

United States of America

was

Screenwriter Writer

Work field

Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature

Gender

Female

Birth

26 August 1907 People who share this birthday

Place of birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Star sign

Virgo People who share this birthday

Death

1988

Place of death

New York City, New York, USA

Age

80 years

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Biography

Sylvia Thalberg (August 26, 1907 – April 9, 1988) was an American screenwriter active in the late 1920s through the late 1930s. Her brother was big-time film producer Irving Thalberg.

Biography

Origins

Sylvia was born in Brooklyn, New York, to German-Jewish immigrant parents. She had one brother, Irving, who would grow up to be a famous producer at MGM. She spent most of her early life in Brooklyn before joining her brother in Los Angeles in the late 1920s.

Hollywood career

By 1927, she had begun writing scenarios for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and was noted as the youngest member of the studio's writing staff. Some of her earliest screenplays included Lovers? and Baby Mine, both of which were hits with audiences.

With the release of 1930's Montana Moon, she and co-writer Frank Butler were noted as the only screenwriters at the time who had prepared the original story, adaptation, continuity and dialogue for a sound film. She and Butler collaborated on a number of scripts together.

In 1933, she resigned her position at MGM aiming to spend her time writing novels. At the time, she had tired of being accused of benefiting from her brother's position, and her novel, Too Beautiful, had been accepted for publication. She wasn't gone from the business long, however; later that year, she was signed to co-write a script at Paramount and later officially joined its staff.

In 1944, she signed a new writing contract at the Producers Corporation of America, where it was announced she was writing a remake of The Greeks Had a Word for It. The film was never made.

Personal life

In 1928, she married Lawrence Weingarten, a producer at MGM. The marriage ended in divorce in 1943. She later married Paul Streeger, and they remained married until his death.