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Why Girls Leave Home (1945 film)

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Why Girls Leave Home
Directed byWilliam Berke
Written byFanya Foss (story and screenplay)
Bradford Ropes (screenplay)
Produced bySamuel Sax
StarringLola Lane
Sheldon Leonard
Pamela Blake
CinematographyMack Stengler
Edited byCarl Pierson
Music byWalter Greene (uncredited)
Production
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Release date
  • October 9, 1945 (1945-10-09) (US)
Running time
69 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Why Girls Leave Home is a 1945 American drama film directed by William Berke, written by Fanya Foss and Bradford Ropes, and starring Lola Lane, Sheldon Leonard, and Pamela Blake. The film's composer, Walter Greene, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1945. Also, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans were nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Cat and the Canary".

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Philip Yordan says he wrote the script in three days. He says he was approached by Edward Small who had set up the picture at Republic for which actors had been hired and sets built, but Herbert Yates head of the studio did not like the script. Small said Yates would finance if Yordan wrote the script, so he started on Friday, dictated it on Saturday and Sunday morning. Filming began on Monday.[1]

References

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  1. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (1991). Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s. University of California Press. p. 350.
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