ELEANOR PERRY

Eleanor Perry was a television and movie script writer from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was born Eleanor Rosenfeld in 1914, and acquired a degree in psychiatric social work, and then married Lee Grossberg Bayer, taking his last name, and they wrote jointly, under the pseudonym of Oliver Weld Bayer. They wrote a novel called "Paper Chase", which was purchased by MGM in 1942, but was not made into a movie until 1945, under the title of "Dangerous Partners". In 1958, she divorced, and two years later, she married Frank Perry, who was 16 years her junior. Two years after that, they bought the rights to the novel "Lisa and David", and Eleanor wrote the screenplay and Frank directed the award-winning film adaptation of the book, but they changed the title to "David and Lisa". They continued as a screenwriter/director team over the course of their marriage, which included "The Swimmer" in 1968, "Last Summer" in 1969, and "Diary of a Mad Housewife" in 1970. They divorced in 1971, and she continued writing, passing away in 1981 at the age of 91.