Lucille Fletcher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lucille Fletcher

American screenwriter

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1912

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 31-Aug-2000

Profession: screenwriter, writer, novelist, librettist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 – August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television.
Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series.
Lucille Fletcher also wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name.
Married to composer Bernard Herrmann in 1939, she wrote the libretto for his opera Wuthering Heights, which he began in 1943 and completed in 1951, after their divorce.