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name: "Adele Comandini"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 April 1898"
died: "22 July 1987"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-19T23:26:30.056127+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Adele Comandini

Writer. Born 29 April 1898 in New York City. Died 22 July 1987.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 April 1898, New York City
- **Died:** 22 July 1987
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Comandini, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q354402, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0173532/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/115869

## Biography

Adele Comandini (29 April 1898 – 22 July 1987) was an American screenwriter. Born in New York City to Italian immigrant parents, she began her career in Hollywood in 1926 with the adaptation *Subway Sadie* and went on to write screenplays for more than twenty films and television episodes.

She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Story for *Three Smart Girls* (1936), on which she also wrote the screenplay. Her other credits include *Beyond Tomorrow* (1940), *Strange Illusion* (1945) and *Christmas in Connecticut* (1945). Comandini also wrote the 1956 biography *Doctor Kate, Angel on Snowshoes* and edited the 1936 book *I Saw Them Die*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Three Smart Girls* (1936), Fi1m 72, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/three-smart-girls.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Flame of the Islands* (1955), Story
- *The Mating of Millie* (1948), Story
- *Danger Signal* (1945), Screenplay
- *Christmas in Connecticut* (1945), Screenplay
- *Strange Illusion* (1945), Screenplay
- *Night Club Girl* (1945), Story
- *Good Luck, Mr. Yates* (1943), Writer
- *Always in My Heart* (1942), Screenplay
- *Her First Romance* (1940), Screenplay
- *Beyond Tomorrow* (1940), Associate Producer, Screenplay, Story
- *Three Smart Girls* (1936), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/three-smart-girls.md)
- *The Country Beyond* (1936), Writer
- *A Girl of the Limberlost* (1934), Screenplay
- *Jane Eyre* (1934), Writer
- *Hell Bound* (1931), Story, Screenplay
- *Playing Around* (1930), Scenario Writer, Writer
- *The Girl from Woolworth's* (1929), Story, Scenario Writer
- *Subway Sadie* (1926), Writer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1937: Best Story (nominated), for *Three Smart Girls*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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