But her directing debut, "This Is My Life," was a box office flop. She garnered her first serious screenwriting success with her 1989 romantic comedy "When Harry Met Sally," which became an international hit.
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She became one of the few people to know the true identity of the reporters' source, "Deep Throat," and following a volatile divorce freely revealed his name: Mark Felt.īut her work on her husband's script helped elevate her reputation in the movie industry. She helped her then-husband rewrite much of William Goldman's script for "All the President's Men." Though her version of the script was not used, it landed her a screenwriting job on a television movie. She was inspiring, intimidating, and insightful." And not just do it, but excel at it, revolutionize it, set the bar for every other screenwriter, novelist, director. A writer, director, wife, mother, chef, wit–there didn't seem to be anything she couldn't do.
Said actress Carrie Fisher: "In a world where we're told that you can't have it all, Nora consistently proved that adage wrong. "Nora and her husband Nick have been stalwart members of the Writers Guild, East - our love and sympathy to him and Nora's family, She was a friend, a colleague and a mentor and she will be deeply, deeply missed." "In her life and in her work for print, stage and especially screen, Nora was the epitome of the New York writer: smart, funny, sophisticated, committed, driven and direct," Lowell Peterson, executive director, and Michael Winship, president, of the Writers Guild of America, East, said in a statement Tuesday night. Her son Jacob Bernstein told the New York Times on Tuesday evening that she had died of pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia.Īlso read: Nora Ephron: From 'When Harry Met Sally' to 'Julie & Julia,' Her True Genius Was for Food
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