Adele Comandini

Adele Comandini (29 April 1898 – 22 July 1987) was an American screenwriter, who was nominated at the Academy Awards in 1937 for the Academy Award for best original story.

Adele Comandini, daughter of Italian immigrants, was born in New York. She began her career as a screenwriter in the film industry in Hollywood in 1926 with the literary adaptation for the film Subway Sadie. Over time, she wrote to the mid-1950s, the screenplays for more than twenty films and TV episodes.

At the Academy Awards in 1937 she was nominated for the Academy Award for best original story for Three Smart Girls (1936)... Other well-known films she wrote screenplays for were Beyond Tomorrow (1940), Strange Illusion (1942) and Christmas in Connecticut (1945). In 1992, again under the original title Christmas in Connecticut, a remake was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, starring Dyan Cannon and Kris Kristofferson. It was Schwarzenegger's directorial debut.

Comandini died in Los Angeles, California, aged 89.

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