Biography
Viña Delmar (1903–1990) was an American novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Born Alvina Louise Croter in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of vaudeville performers, she rose to prominence with her 1928 novel Bad Girl, a bestseller that was adapted for the stage and filmed in 1931.
Delmar wrote the screenplays for Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) and The Awful Truth (1937), the latter earning her an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay. She continued publishing novels and short stories from the 1920s into the 1970s.
