Joyce Hooper Corrington
{{short description|American television and film writer (born 1936)}}
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|name=Joyce Hooper Corrington
|birth_name = Joyce Elaine Hooper
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1936|8|5}}
|birth_place=United States
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|spouse= John William Corrington (m. 1960)
|children = 4
|occupation= Screenwriter
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Joyce Elaine Corrington ({{nee}} Hooper; born August 5, 1936) is an American television and film writer.{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=The Screen:'Boxcar Bertha' Tops Local Double Bill|first=Howard|last=Thompson|date=August 18, 1972|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980CE1DF1631E63BBC4052DFBE668389669EDE}} She was married to fellow soap-opera writer John William Corrington, who died in 1988.
Career
In an interview on the Omega Man DVD she mentions that her first degree was in engineering and her PhD in chemistry. She was a professor in chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana in 1978.{{Cite journal |last=Chatman |first=Valerie |date=September 1978 |title=New faculty and staff promotions named |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.31025680 |journal=Xavier Herald |volume=LV |issue=6 |page=5}}
With her husband, she wrote five screenplays, Von Richthofen and Brown (1969), The Omega Man (1971),{{cite web|work=The New York Times|title=The Omega Man (1971) Screen: All Alone in L.A.:Charlton Heston Stars in 'The Omega Man'|first=Howard|last=Thompson|date=August 14, 1971|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C05E1DA1E3FE63ABC4C52DFBE66838A669EDE}} Boxcar Bertha (1971), The Arena (1972), and Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), and a television film, The Killer Bees (1974).{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
She served as Director of Research in Science and associate professor of chemistry at Xavier University of Louisiana, in New Orleans.{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}
She co-created the short-lived soap opera Texas, along with her husband and a fellow soap-opera colleague, Paul Rauch. She wrote for other serials, including Search for Tomorrow, General Hospital, and One Life to Live. Her most recent position was as a producer and story editor for MTV's The Real World.{{Cite web |last=Nash |first=Cara |date=2023-11-22 |title=Unsung Auteurs: John & Joyce Corrington |url=https://www.filmink.com.au/unsung-auteurs-john-joyce-corrington/ |access-date=2024-06-27 |website=FilmInk |language=en-AU}}
Selected filmography
- The Omega Man - screenwriter (1971)
- Boxcar Bertha - screenwriter (1972)
- Texas - co-creator (with John William Corrington and Paul Rauch); co-Head Writer: 1980–1981
- Capitol - co-Head Writer: 1982–1983
- General Hospital - co-Head Writer: 1983
- One Life to Live - co-Head Writer: 1983
- Superior Court - co-Head Writer: 1987–1989
References
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External links
- {{official website|http://www.jcorrington.com}}
- {{IMDb name|0181020}}
- [http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/3/38860 John and Joyce Corrington collection] at [https://www.hnoc.org/ The Historic New Orleans Collection]
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Category:American soap opera writers
Category:American television producers
Category:American women television producers
Category:American women screenwriters