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Irving Ravetch

Irving Ravetch
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Ravetch on the set of Hombre in 1967
Born Irving Dover Ravetch
(1920-11-14)November 14, 1920
Newark, New Jersey
Died September 19, 2010(2010-09-19) (aged 89)
Los Angeles, California
Other names James P. Bonner
Occupation Screenwriter, producer
Years active 1947–1990
Spouse(s) Harriet Frank, Jr. (1946–2010)

Irving Dover Ravetch (November 14, 1920 – September 19, 2010) was an American screenwriter and film producer who frequently collaborated with his wife Harriet Frank, Jr.

Ravetch was born to a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Sylvia (Shapiro) and I. Shalom Ravetch, a rabbi. His mother was born in Palestine and his father in the Ukraine. Ravetch was an aspiring playwright when he enrolled at University of California, Los Angeles. Following graduation, he joined the young writer's training program at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he met Frank, whom he married in 1946. The following year he gained his first screen credit with Living in a Big Way.

For the next decade, Ravetch worked mostly on Western films such as Vengeance Valley. In 1958, he and Frank approached producer Jerry Wald and proposed they adapt the 1940 William Faulkner novel The Hamlet for the screen. The result was The Long, Hot Summer, which primarily was an original story with one of Faulkner's characters at its center. When Wald greenlighted the film and asked Ravetch to choose a director, he suggested Martin Ritt, whom he knew from the Group Theatre and the Actors Studio in New York City.The Long, Hot Summer proved to be the first of eight projects – including The Sound and the Fury, Hud, Norma Rae, Murphy's Romance, and Stanley & Iris – written by Ravetch and Frank and directed by Ritt. Additional screenwriting credits include Home from the Hill, The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, The Reivers, The Spikes Gang, and The Cowboys.


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