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Allen skipped college and left home at the age of 18 to become an actress. She said her career in New York City lasted "for about 25 minutes" when she realized that she only liked rehearsals and the first week of performance, and would rather be "out there" where the decisions were being made. [5]
Like Mia Farrow’s character in Woody Allen’s masterpiece about cinematic obsession, The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), which is set in the period that Presson Allen grew up in, she was obviously entranced by what she saw on screen and eventually left her local college to pursue a career as an actress in New York.
May 6, 2006 · Jay Presson Allen, an adapter of novels for stage and screen who stood out in an era when few women worked in that field, has died. She was 84. Allen died Monday at her home in Manhattan after ...
Educated at Miss Hockaday's School for Young Ladies in Dallas, Presson in her own words received no education at all. At the age of 18, she decided to become an actress in New York City. The charms of the profession soon...
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May 2, 2006 · She attended a girls' school in Dallas but skipped college, moving out to California at 18 to become an actress. It did not take long for her to turn from acting to writing.
Jay Presson Allen was one of the most accomplished writing talents of stage and screen to emerge during the Sixties, with a particular flair for adaptation.
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3 March 1922 to 30 April 2006. American screenwriter and playwright Jay Presson Allen will be best remembered for her screen adaptations of hits such as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Cabaret (1972) - the latter bringing BAFTA and Oscar nominations.
