Erna Lazarus was a screen and television writer

Screenwriter

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 from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Lazarus, born in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, was one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild. On her death, Variety

Variety (magazine)

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credited her as "one of the first female screenwriters working steadily in the studio system." She also had an influential role in the formation of the Interguild Federal Credit Union.

Lazarus died on February 19, 2006, in Woodland Hills, California, at the age of 102.

Selected filmography

• Hollywood or Bust
  Hollywood Or Bust
  Hollywood or Bust is a 1956 film comedy starring the team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. The picture was filmed from April 16 to June 19, 1956 and released on December 6, 1956 by Paramount Pictures, almost five months after the Martin and Lewis partnership split up.-Plot:Malcolm Smith wins a...
  
  (the last film featuring Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis
  Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
  
   and Dean Martin
  Dean Martin
  Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...
  
  ) - sole story and screen play
• Flareup (starring Raquel Welch) - associate producer
• Meet Me After the Show
  Meet Me After the Show
  Meet Me After the Show is a 1951 musical film starring Betty Grable and released through 20th Century Fox. The film was one of Grable's last musical films for Fox during her box office reign of the past decade.-Plot:...
  
  (starring Betty Grable) - original story
• Moonlight in Hawaii
  Moonlight in Hawaii
  Moonlight in Hawaii is a 1941 American musical film comedy starring Jane Frazee.-Cast:*Johnny Downs ... Pete*Jane Frazee ... Toby*Leon Errol ... Spencer*Mischa Auer ... Clipper*Charles Coleman ... Butler*Sunnie O'Dea ... Gloria...
  
  
• Double Date
• Atlantic Flight
  Atlantic Flight
  Atlantic Flight is a 1937 film made by Monogram Pictures chiefs Trem Carr and W. Ray Johnston who had just reformed the studio after having had a troubled merger for two years with Herbert J. Yates and Republic Pictures. This film was conceived as a low-budget feature meant to capitalize on Dick...
  
  
• Let's Go Steady

Selected TV writing

• Racket Squad
  Racket Squad
  Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department....
  
  
• Mr. and Mrs. North
  Mr. and Mrs. North
  Mr. and Mrs. North are fictional American amateur detectives. Created by Frances and Richard Lockridge, the couple were featured in a series of 26 Mr. and Mrs. North novels, a Broadway play, a motion picture and several radio and television series....
  
  
• Petticoat Junction
  Petticoat Junction
  Petticoat Junction is an American situation comedy produced by Filmways which originally aired on CBS from 1963 to 1970. The series is one of three interrelated shows about rural characters created by Paul Henning; the others are The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.The setting for the series...
  
  
• Bewitched
  Bewitched
  Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York and Dick Sargent , Agnes Moorehead, and David White. The show is about a witch who marries a mortal and tries to lead the life of a typical suburban...
  
  
• Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye
  Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.-Premise:...
  
  
• Surfside Six

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