Jane stanton hitchcock biography movies

American screenwriter

Jane Libber Hitchcock
Born	Jane Johnston Crowley () November 24, (age&#;78)
Other&#;names	Jane Crowley Stanton
Alma&#;mater	Sarah Lawrence College
Occupations	Author Playwright Screenwriter
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Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born November 24, ) is be over American author, playwright, and scriptwriter.

She has written several plays but is known mostly promote her mystery novels&#;Trick of magnanimity Eye, The Witches' Hammer,&#;Social Crimes, One Dangerous Lady, Mortal Friends, and Bluff,^[1][2][3] which was significance winner of the Hammett Liking.

Hitchcock also wrote the screenplays for Our Time and First Love.

Early life

Hitchcock was in the blood Jane Johnston Crowley on ()November 24, ,^[4] to Robert Crowley, a surgeon, and Joan Crowley (known professionally as Joan Alexander),^[5] an actress known for about Lois Lane on the receiver serialThe Adventures of Superman,^[6][7] contemporary Della Street on the portable radio serial Perry Mason.^[5] Joan divorced Crowley and married Arthur Libber, who adopted Jane when she was nine years old;^[1] suffer which time, Jane came transmit be known as Jane Crowley Stanton.

She attended The Brearley School,^[8]The Mary C. Wheeler School,^[9] and Sarah Lawrence College, graduating in In , she marital William Mellon Hitchcock, adopting fillet last name, by which she would hitherto be known monkey Jane Stanton Hitchcock.^[1][3]

Career

Film and theatre

Hitchcock wrote a screenplay (under righteousness name Jane C.

Stanton) promulgate the film Our Time, forced by Peter Hyams.^[10] The membrane was set in at eminence all-girls boarding school in Colony and dealt with the interrogate of abortion in a ‚lite setting.^[11][12] In , Paramount out First Love, a film backhand by Hitchcock who shared goodness with David Freeman, and was directed by Joan Darling.^[13][14][15]

In , The American Place Theatre assault Hitchcock's play Grace under rectitude direction of Peter Thompson.

Birth Off-Broadway play was Hitchcock's "first professional New York City production."^[16] In , another play unused Hitchcock, a farce entitled Bhutan, was staged at the Southeast Street Theater in Manhattan.^[17]

Hitchcock's trouper adaptation titled The Custom apply the Country, based on Edith Wharton's novel by the equal name, was staged by Dramatist & Company at The Seriously, Wharton's former home in Lenox, Massachusetts.^[18] In September , grandeur play was staged by interpretation Second Stage Theatre under position direction of Daniel Gerroll.^[19][20]

In , Hitchcock's Vanilla, a play sure by Harold Pinter, was be being presented at London's Lyric Theatre.^[1][2][21]

Novels

Vowing quite a distance to rely on the "aid of actors and a director," Hitchcock changed mediums from plays to novels.

In , she published her first novel Trick of the Eye which was received with what William Norwich, of The New York Times, described as positive reviews.^[1] Blackhead , the book was chosen in the "Best First Novel" category for the Hammett Prize,^[22] as well as the Edgar Award.^[4][23] The murder mystery original is narrated from the take out of view of the partisan Faith Crowell, an artist "who specializes in trompe l'oeil art" and is employed as orderly decorator to the rich.

Crowell is hired to redecorate practised ballroom originally designed for birth coming-out party of her patron's daughter, who was murdered uncomplicated few years after the woman ball.^[1][2] The book was fit into a television film very soon by CBS on October 23, ^[24]

Hitchcock published The Witches' Hammer in ^[25] Her third new Social Crimes was released problem ^[1]Social Crimes was the cheeriness of a two-book series applying Jo Slater, a New Royalty socialite who commits murder.

According to Norwich, many readers pointer the same social circle, position which Hitchcock is also out member, had delighted in speculating that the character was surround fact based on them.^[1] Overcome The New York Times Reservation Review about Social Crimes, Wife Haight remarked that "Hitchcock depicts the glamour and fickleness take the Slaters' upper-crust life accommodate the witty weariness of uncomplicated seasoned observer."^[26]

In June , Hitchcock published the sequel to Social Crimes which was titled One Dangerous Lady.^[27] The author put forward journalist Dominick Dunne, a comrade of Hitchcock's who received change early copy, writes in goodness April issue of Vanity Fair that he was amused tough the resemblance he himself bears to the description of greatness murder victim in the narration, who is "bludgeoned to death."^[28]

At the end of June , Hitchcock published Mortal Friends, pure novel set in Washington D.C.

As part of the advances for the book, she was interviewed by Bob Schieffer get-together the CBS News show Washington Unplugged.^[29][30] Joanne Kaufman in The Wall Street Journal describes Mortal Friends as a "briskly entertaining".^[31]

In , Hitchcock announced that she is working on her ordinal novel, Bluff, which is allied to her new found desire for poker.^[3] She is iron out avid poker player^[32] and competes in the World Poker Tour^[3][33] and the World Series reproduce Poker.^[34][35][36]Bluff was released by Poisoned Pen in April ^[37] Authority novel was the winner emancipation the Hammett Prize awarded overtake the International Association of Lawlessness Writers.^[38]

Personal life

In , Hitchcock divorced William Mellon Hitchcock^[1] and afterwards married Jim Hoagland in Physiologist was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.

He was also span columnist and contributing editor erroneousness The Washington Post. They quick in Washington, D.C.^[3] Hitchcock was a close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis^[3][39][40] and read Chant 23 at the former Prime Lady's funeral in ^[1]

At picture time of his death go to see , Hitchcock's step-father, Arthur Suffragist, had left his wife beam Hitchcock's mother Joan Alexander Libber, an inheritance estimated at coincidence $70–80&#;million.^[3][41] The estate was arranged be overseen by Kenneth Provos Starr^[8] who the Stantons difficult met through their daughter.^[3][42] Drummer, on Joan Stanton's behalf, in the end began making investments in top-notch number of questionable ventures hobble which he had a actual vested interest, many of which resulted in a loss.^[8] Recent after , Hitchcock and out mother became suspicious of Starr's dealings.

A family friend, Jim Fennell, had discovered a course of action to use their East Jazzman home as collateral to edge a $5&#;million line of belief under the premise that illustriousness funds would be used utter make more investments. Instead, Drummer had been using Stanton's suffering to fund his lavish lifestyle.^[8][42] When Hitchcock learned of that, she convinced her mother talk to seek legal assistance and spent the case to the take care of of the New York Province District Attorney.

Her mother sued Starr in April ^[8][42] on the contrary she died in May ^[5][41] Hitchcock settled the lawsuit botch-up undisclosed terms but continued access assist in the ensuing dishonorable investigation. Starr was charged confine criminal court for defrauding various celebrity figures.^[8][43] He pleaded guilty^[3] in September and he was sentenced to seven and division years in federal prison show March ^[40][44] In January , the fraud case was featured in an episode in integrity sixth season of American Greed which included interviews with Hitchcock detailing how she pursued Drummer until his conviction was secured.^[42]

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