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Ernest Lehman

Age: 89

esteemed screenwriter who penned the classic films North by Northwest and Sweet Smell of Success. He adapted the plays Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Sound of Music for the big screen.

Died: Los Angeles, July 2, 2005

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More on Ernest Lehman from Infoplease:

  • Family Plot - Starring Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, William Devane, Karen Black, Ed Lauter
  • Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - Starring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene
  • North by Northwest (1959) - Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G Carroll
  • West Side Story - Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris
  • The Sound of Music - Starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood