Cecile Kramer
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Cecile Kramer
| birth_name = Cecile Lewis
| birth_date = August 22, 1911
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| death_date = February 24, 1999 (aged 87)
| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA
| occupation = Screenwriter
| spouse =
}}
Cecile Kramer (1911 – 1999) was an American screenwriter primarily known for her contributions to B-Westerns in the 1940s.
Biography
Cecile was born in Cincinnati, Ohio,{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/511013643/?terms=%22cecile+kramer%22|title=16 Apr 1946, 12 - The La Crosse Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-23}} to Arthur Lewis and Bertha Davis. She assumed her stepfather Edward Kramer's last name when her mother remarried. The family moved west and settled in Los Angeles by the time Cecile and her half-sister Bertha were teenagers. By the 1940s, she was writing film scripts; one of her earliest sales was a Hopalong Cassidy script she co-wrote with Ellen Corby.{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380787713/?terms=%22cecile+kramer%22|title=29 Apr 1941, 42 - The Los Angeles Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-23}} Most of the films she wrote or co-wrote were penned for Harry Sherman's independent production company.
Selected filmography
- Hoppy's Holiday (1947)
- Ramrod (1947)
- Buffalo Bill (1944)
- Silver Queen (1942)
- Twilight on the Trail (1941)
References
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Category:Writers from Cincinnati
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Screenwriters from Ohio
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
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