{{short description|Screenwriter}} {{Infobox person | name = Erna Lazarus | image = | alt = | caption = | 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, Los Angeles|Woodland Hills]], [[California]], U.S. | occupation = Screen and television writer | years_active = | known_for = }} '''Erna Lazarus''' (June 16, 1903<ref name="ReferenceA">Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840–1915</ref> – February 19, 2006)<ref name=UPI>{{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=[[United Press International|UPI]] |website=upi.com |date=14 March 2006|accessdate=24 February 2011}}</ref> was a [[screenwriter|screen and television writer]]<ref name=UPI /> from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Lazarus, born in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]],<ref name="ReferenceA"/> was one of the founding members of the Screen Writers Guild.<ref>{{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}}</ref> On her death, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' credited her as "one of the first female screenwriters working steadily in the studio system."<ref name=DV> {{cite news |url= https://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=awardcentral&jump=news&articleid=VR1117939723 |accessdate= 2011-02-24 |title= Erna Lazarus |date= March 14, 2006 |work= Variety.com }}</ref> She also had an influential role in the formation of the Interguild Federal Credit Union.<ref name=DV />

Lazarus died on February 19, 2006, in [[Woodland Hills, California]], at the age of 102.<ref name=UPI />

==Selected filmography== * ''[[Hollywood or Bust]]'' (the last film featuring [[Jerry Lewis]] and [[Dean Martin]]) – sole story and screen play<ref name=IMPA>{{cite journal|title=International Motion Picture Alamanac|journal=International Motion Picture Almanac|year=1986|publisher=Quigley Publications|location=New York|issn=0074-7084|pages=156}}</ref> * ''Flareup'' (starring Raquel Welch) – associate producer<ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Meet Me After the Show]]'' (starring Betty Grable) – original story<ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Moonlight in Hawaii]]''<ref name="MSN">{{Cite web |url=http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-filmography/erna-lazarus/ |title=Erna Lazarus – Filmography – MSN Movies |access-date=2011-02-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612032729/http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-filmography/erna-lazarus/ |archive-date=2012-06-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * ''Double Date''<ref name="MSN" /> * ''[[Atlantic Flight (1937 film)|Atlantic Flight]]''<ref name="MSN" /> * ''[[Let's Go Steady]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/work/lets-go-steady-99434|title = Let's Go Steady (1945) – del Lord &#124; Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related &#124; AllMovie}}</ref> * ''[[The Girl of the Limberlost]]'' (1945) * ''[[Slightly Scandalous]]'' (1946)

==Selected radio writing== * ''[[Mayor of the Town (radio program)|Mayor of the Town]]''<ref name="Dunning">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |date=1998 |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=443 |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&pg=PA443&dq=%22Mayor+of+the+Town,+comedy-drama%22}}</ref>

==Selected TV writing== * ''[[Racket Squad]]''<ref name=UPI /> * ''[[Mr. and Mrs. North]]'' <ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Petticoat Junction]]''<ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Bewitched]]''<ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Hawaiian Eye]]''<ref name=IMPA /> * ''[[Surfside Six]]''<ref name=IMPA />

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0493811}}

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