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She continued acting while in California; she has a small credited role (under the name Jay Presson) in the 1945 film An Angel Comes to Brooklyn and can be glimpsed briefly as "Miss Zelda" in the 1946 film Gay Blades.
Writer: Cabaret. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Jay Presson Allen was born Jacqueline Presson in San Angelo, Texas on March 3, 1922, the daughter of a department store manager. Educated at Miss Hockaday's School for Young Ladies in Dallas, Presson in her own words received no education at all.
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- San Angelo, Texas, USA
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Jay Presson Allen was one of the finest female screenwriters of the 1960s and 1970s, successfully adapting for the screen such disparate source material as Marnie (1964), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Cabaret (1972).
May 1, 2006 · She was born as Jacqueline Presson, the only child of Willie Mae, a buyer, and Albert Jack Presson, a department store merchant. She wrote the screenplay for Lord of the Flies (1990) under the pseudonym Sara Schiff.
May 7, 2006 · Jay Presson Allen, 84, an adapter of novels for stage and screen who stood out in an era when few women worked in that field, died May 1 at her home in New York after a stroke.
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...
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Jay Presson Allen (1922-2006), Oscar-nominated screenwriter, was born Jacqueline Presson in San Angelo, Texas on March 3, 1922. At the age of 18, she decided to become an actress in New York City.
