{{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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
She moved into radio when she began producing and editing Helen Hayes' Sunday radio program while writing articles for publications like ''Town and Country''.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
She married Hubbell Robinson, a CBS executive she met while working in radio, in 1940.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref> After their divorce in the early 1950s, she dated actor Alexander Kirkland.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
She died of emphysema in New York City in 1984.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
== 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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