Erna Lazarus

{{short description|Screenwriter}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|06|16}}

| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2006|02|19|1903|06|16}}

| death_place = Woodland Hills, California, U.S.

| occupation = Screen and television writer

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Erna Lazarus (June 16, 1903Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840–1915 – February 19, 2006){{cite web |url=http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2006/03/14/Screenwriter-Erna-Lazarus-dead-at-102/UPI-48531142379864 |title=Screenwriter Erna Lazarus dead at 102 |agency=UPI |website=upi.com |date=14 March 2006|accessdate=24 February 2011}} was a screen and television writer from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Lazarus, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild.{{cite news|last=Leff|first=Lisa|title=On Oscar Night : Passing the Torch|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-28-me-48077-story.html|access-date=24 February 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 28, 1995}} On her death, Variety credited her as "one of the first female screenwriters working steadily in the studio system."

{{cite news

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}} 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.