Therese Lewis
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Therese Lewis
| birth_date = September 26, 1911
| birth_place = Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| death_date = June 28, 1984 (aged 72)
| death_place = New York City, New York, USA
| occupation = Screenwriter, author, producer
| spouse = Hubbell Robinson (div.)
}}
Therese Lewis (1911-1984) was an American screenwriter, author, and producer who worked in radio, film, and television in the 1940s up through the 1960s.
Biography
Originally intending to be an actress, Lewis began her career as a player in the Cincinnati Stuart Walker Company before working in publicity, writing commercials, and then working as a story editor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/149644467/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+writer|title=3 May 1941, Page 3 - The Akron Beacon Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}
She moved into radio when she began producing and editing Helen Hayes' Sunday radio program while writing articles for publications like Town and Country.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/251970601/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22|title=29 Jun 1941, Page 19 - The Star Press at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/259299417/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+hubbell|title=14 Mar 1938, 5 - The Honolulu Advertiser at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/38230686/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+writer|title=27 Dec 1941, Page 8 - Globe-Gazette at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/147445435/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+writer|title=29 Apr 1941, Page 16 - The Pittsburgh Press at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}} She eventually forged a successful career for herself as a film and television writer before becoming a producer on the '60s TV soap Peyton Place. She also served as script editor on the program NBC's Television Playhouse.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/177698417/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+writer|title=17 Feb 1954, Page 32 - The Philadelphia Inquirer at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}
She married Hubbell Robinson, a CBS executive she met while working in radio, in 1940.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/61679034/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+hubbell|title=29 Sep 1974, Page 86 - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/62967361/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+hubbell|title=5 Dec 1940, Page 42 - The Evening News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}} After their divorce in the early 1950s, she dated actor Alexander Kirkland.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/183424454/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+hubbell|title=14 May 1952, Page 5 - Star Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}
She died of emphysema in New York City in 1984.{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/336403985/?terms=%22therese+lewis%22+writer|title=1 Jul 1984, 43 - The Tampa Tribune at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-01-31}}
Selected filmography
As a producer:
- Peyton Place (1964–1965)
As a writer:
- Goodyear Playhouse (TV, 1957 episode "Rumblin' Galleries")
- Matinee Theatre (TV, 1956 episode "A Man and a Maid")
- Schlitz Playhouse (TV, 1953 episodes "The Perfect Secretary" and "The Governess")
- Robert Montgomery Presents (TV, 1953 episode "The Wind Cannot Read")
- What a Woman! (1943)
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Category:Deaths from emphysema
Category:American women screenwriters
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:20th-century American screenwriters
Category:American television writers