5/2/06

Jay Presson Allen, dead at 84

Jay Presson Allen, dead at 84

I liked her adaptations from novels and the stage best--films like Deathtrap, Prince of the City, Alfred Hitchcock's flawed but fascinating Marnie and, above all, her adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories into what I think is the greatest musical film ever made, Bob Fosse's Cabaret

According to Los Angeles film critic David Ehrenstein, her screenplay for Just Tell Me What You Want is based on her affair with producer Ray Stark.

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