---
name: "Viña Delmar"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vina-delmar"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "29 January 1903"
died: "19 January 1990"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-19T23:27:29.507006+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."
---

# Viña Delmar

Writer. Born 29 January 1903 in Brooklyn. Died 19 January 1990.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 29 January 1903, Brooklyn
- **Died:** 19 January 1990
- **Active:** 1931–1937
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B1a_Delmar, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3561703, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0217568/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/125363

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Awful Truth*](https://film.one/film/the-awful-truth.md) (89)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## 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.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Awful Truth* (1937), Fi1m 89, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-awful-truth.md)
- *Bad Girl* (1931), Fi1m 64, Novel — [page](https://film.one/film/bad-girl.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *The Rest Is Silence* (1978), Original Story
- *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1970), Director
- *About Mrs. Leslie* (1954), Novel
- *Cynthia* (1947), Theatre Play
- *Hello, Frisco, Hello* (1943), Story
- *The Great Man's Lady* (1941), Story
- *Manhattan Heartbeat* (1940), Story
- *The Awful Truth* (1937), Screenplay — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/the-awful-truth.md)
- *Make Way for Tomorrow* (1937), Screenplay
- *Bad Boy* (1935), Original Story
- *Hands Across the Table* (1935), Story
- *Sadie McKee* (1934), Story
- *Chance at Heaven* (1933), Original Story
- *Pick-up* (1933), Story
- *The Woman Accused* (1933), Story
- *Uptown New York* (1932), Story
- *Bad Girl* (1931), Novel — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/bad-girl.md)
- *A Soldier's Plaything* (1930), Story
- *Playing Around* (1930), Adaptation, Writer
- *Dance Hall* (1929), Story

## Gallery

- ![Delmar in 1921](https://film.one/media/person/1225406/gallery-e922bdda8972.jpg) Delmar in 1921 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Vi%C3%B1a_Delmar_1921.jpg/1280px-Vi%C3%B1a_Delmar_1921.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Viña Delmar](https://film.one/media/person/1225406/gallery-24c837127cc7.jpg) Viña Delmar — trailer screenshot (MGM), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/Vina_Delmar_in_Sadie_McKee_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1938: Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay (nominated), for *The Awful Truth*

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

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