Lila Garrett Explained

Lila Garrett
Birth Date:21 November 1925
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Death Place:Los Angeles, California
Children:1
Relatives:
Occupation:Screenwriter
Television:The ABC Afternoon Playbreak, The Other Woman, All in the Family, The Second Hundred Years, Bewitched, My Favorite Martian,"Barney Miller"

Lila Garrett (November 21, 1925 – February 1, 2020) was an American television screenwriter and radio host who wrote for the sitcomsThe Second Hundred Years (she co-wrote episodes 10 and 13 with Bernie Kahn),[1] My Favorite Martian,[2] All in the Family,[3] and Bewitched.[4] She also co-wrote The Barefoot Executive, a 1971 Disney TV movie,[5] with Kahn and Stu Billett.

An anti-war activist, Garrett's political engagement includes starting Americans Against War with Iraq,[6] serving as a DNC delegate for presidential candidate Michael Dukakis,[7] presiding as president[8] over the Southern California chapter of the Americans for Democratic Action, and being a founding member of Progressive Democrats of America. She hosted KPFK's Connect the Dots on Pacifica Radio,[9] interviewing left-leaning luminaries and often closed her show with "The arms industry has neither allies nor enemies, only customers." She was a frequent contributor to the LA Progressive, an online magazine[10]

She lived in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital for a while.[11]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [Everything you wanted to know about your mother-in-law but were afraid to ask], [I love you, I love you, I love you, I think]]. copyrightencyclopedia.com. 2013-12-26.
  2. Web site: My Favorite Martian: The Martian's Fair Hobo (1965) . blockbuster.com . 2013-12-26 . Writer(s): Bernard M. Kahn, Lila Garrett . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226233431/http://www.blockbuster.com/catalog/movieDetails/349631 . 2013-12-26.
  3. Web site: All in the Family: Et Tu, Archie (1974) . blockbuster.com . 2013-12-26 . Writer(s): Lila Garrett, Mickey Rose . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131226233342/http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/188065 . 2013-12-26.
  4. Web site: Bewitched: Samantha's Better Halves : Synopsis. MSN. 2013-12-26. Evidently, this episode of Bewitched was scripted by Lila Garrett and Bernie Kahn before the "birth" of Samantha's son Adam [...]. https://web.archive.org/web/20131227031351/http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie-synopsis/bewitched-samantha's-better-halves/. 2013-12-27. dead.
  5. Web site: Barefoot Executive—Full Production Credits . 2013-12-26 . Baseline StudioSystems . From Feature Screenplay by Joseph L. McEveety; from feature story by Lila Garrett, Bernard M. Kahn, Stu Billett . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140115014719/http://www.nytimes.com/tv/show/40913/Barefoot-Executive/credits . 2014-01-15.
  6. Web site: Building a buzz for peace. 2003-02-04. Los Angeles Times. en-US. 2019-12-09.
  7. Web site: RUNNING MATES STRESS COMMON GROUND. report. WILLIAM E. GIBSON, Washington Bureau Chief National Correspondent Michele Cohen contributed to this. Sun-Sentinel.com. 22 July 1988 . en-US. 2019-12-09.
  8. Web site: Lila Garrett C-SPAN.org. www.c-span.org. 2019-12-09.
  9. Web site: Lila Garrett . The Paley Center for Media . shemadeit.org . 2013-12-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131227090514/http://www.shemadeit.org/meet/biography.aspx?m=119 . 2013-12-27.
  10. Web site: Lila Garrett. 2020-10-10. LA Progressive. en-US.
  11. Web site: Radical radio station KPFK host Lila Garrett, 94, passes . 7 February 2020 .
  12. Web site: Lila Garrett. Stars Color Inc.. starscolor.com. 2013-12-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20130414141212/http://www.starscolor.com/16770-lila-garrett/. 2013-04-14.

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