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name: "Eleanore Griffin"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eleanore-griffin"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 April 1904"
died: "25 July 1995"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:41:43.193529+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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# Eleanore Griffin

Writer. Born 29 April 1904 in Saint Paul. Died 25 July 1995.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 April 1904, Saint Paul
- **Died:** 25 July 1995
- **Active:** 1938–1959
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1930s 65 (1), 1950s 86 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanore_Griffin, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1325753, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341178/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34282

## Biography

Eleanore Griffin was an American screenwriter who worked in Hollywood from 1937 to 1964. She began her career at Universal Studios writing treatments and stories, later contributing to films at MGM, Paramount, Fox and Disney.

Griffin received an Academy Award for best original story, shared with Dore Schary, for *Boys Town* (1938). Her other credits include the story for *The Harvey Girls* (1946), the screenplay for *In Old Oklahoma* (1943), and the screenplay, co-written with Allan Scott, for *Imitation of Life* (1959). She also wrote screenplays for *Good Morning, Miss Dove* (1955), *A Man Called Peter* (1955), *Third Man on the Mountain* (1959) and *Back Street* (1961).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Imitation of Life* (1959), Fi1m 86, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/imitation-of-life.md)
- *Boys Town* (1938), Fi1m 65, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *One Man's Way* (1964), Writer
- *Back Street* (1961), Screenplay
- *Third Man on the Mountain* (1959), Screenplay
- *Imitation of Life* (1959), Screenplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/imitation-of-life.md)
- *Good Morning, Miss Dove* (1955), Screenplay
- *A Man Called Peter* (1955), Screenplay
- *Tenth Avenue Angel* (1948), Writer
- *The Harvey Girls* (1946), Story
- *Nob Hill* (1945), Story
- *Hi, Beautiful* (1944), Story
- *In Old Oklahoma* (1943), Screenplay
- *Blondie in Society* (1941), Story
- *I Wanted Wings* (1941), Story
- *Street of Missing Men* (1939), Story
- *St. Louis Blues* (1939), Story
- *Boys Town* (1938), Story — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/boys-town.md)
- *Thoroughbreds Don't Cry* (1937), Original Story
- *Love in a Bungalow* (1937), Original Story
- *When Love Is Young* (1937), Story
- *Time Out for Romance* (1937), Story

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1939: Best Story (won), for *Boys Town*

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

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