| Edna Anhalt | |
| Birth Name: | Edna Thompson |
| Birth Date: | April 10, 1914 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, USA |
| Death Date: | 1987 |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter |
| Spouse: | Edward Anhalt (div.) |
Edna Anhalt (born Edna Thompson) was an American screenwriter, television writer, and film producer.[1]
Together with then-husband Edward Anhalt, she enjoyed some considerable success in a 10-year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Academy Award for Best Story win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The Sniper.[2] She also wrote the screenplays to The Member of the Wedding (1952), Not as a Stranger (1955) and The Pride and the Passion (1957),[3] which was her last film credit.
Following her divorce from Edward, she later moved into television script-writing and wrote episodes for anthologies The Schlitz Playhouse (1957), General Electric Theatre (1958), and The Virginian (1965).[4]
| Year[5] | Film | Role | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back | Script | |
| 1948 | The Younger Brothers | Script | |
| 1948 | Embraceable You | Script | |
| 1950 | Panic in the Streets | From a Story By | |
| 1950 | Sierra | Screenplay | |
| 1950 | Return of the Frontiersman | Screenplay | |
| 1952 | My Six Convicts | Associate Producer | |
| 1952 | Eight Iron Men | Associate Producer | |
| 1952 | The Sniper | Associate Producer. Original Story | |
| 1953 | The Member of the Wedding | Associate Producer, Script | |
| 1955 | Not as a Stranger | Script | |
| 1957 | The Hole Card | Teleplay | |
| 1957 | The Pride and the Passion | Screen Story and Screenplay by |