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name: "Arlene Donovan"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/arlene-donovan"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "15 July 1927"
died: "14 February 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T06:41:36.436056+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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# Arlene Donovan

Producer. Born 15 July 1927 in Newark. Died 14 February 2024.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 15 July 1927, Newark
- **Died:** 14 February 2024
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Donovan, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22104577, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232945/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70190

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Places in the Heart*](https://film.one/film/places-in-the-heart.md) (80)

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## Biography

Arlene Donovan (15 July 1927 – 14 February 2024) was an American film producer. She began her career as a literary editor and headed the motion picture literary department at ICM in New York from 1968 to 1980, before moving into film production.

Donovan frequently collaborated with director Robert Benton. Her producing credits include *Still of the Night* (1982), *Places in the Heart* (1984), for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, *Nadine* (1987), *Billy Bathgate* (1991), *Nobody's Fool* (1994) and *Twilight* (1998). She was executive producer on *The House on Carroll Street* (1988).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Places in the Heart* (1984), Fi1m 80, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/places-in-the-heart.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Twilight* (1998), Producer
- *Nobody's Fool* (1994), Producer
- *Billy Bathgate* (1991), Producer
- *The House on Carroll Street* (1988), Executive Producer
- *Nadine* (1987), Producer
- *Places in the Heart* (1984), Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/places-in-the-heart.md)
- *Still of the Night* (1982), Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1985: Best Picture (nominated), for *Places in the Heart*

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

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