AKA: Lenore Coffee Cowen, Lenore Coffee
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 07/13/1896
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Death Date: 07/02/1984
This veteran Hollywood scenarist with a career dating back to the 1920s collaborated on a number of Cecil B. DeMille films. Coffee worked for various studios, though most notably MGM and Warners for whom she wrote mostly romantic melodramas and suspense thrillers in the 1940s. Her vast credits include "East Lynne" (1925), "Torch Singer" (1933), "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), "Beyond the Forest" (1949), "Young at Heart" and "Footsteps in the Fog" (both 1955). In 1958, her novel "Another Place" was adapted to the screen, one year before she wrote her final screenplay, "Cash McCall".
Source Material (from novel)
1919
Feature debut, received story credit on "The Better Wife", based on her novel "The Love Quest"
1921
First screenplay credit, "Alias Ladyfingers"
1926
First collaboration with Cecil B DeMille, "For Alimony Only"
1959
Final feature sceenplay, "Cash McCall"
