Elizabeth Meehan

• Born: 1904
• Died: 1967
• Occupation: Writer
• Active: '20s-'40s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Laugh, Clown, Laugh, Housemaster, Over She Goes
• First Major Screen Credit: God Gave Me Twenty Cents (1926)

Biography

American screenwriter Elizabeth Meehan was barely out of college when she began her film career. Meehan's silent-movie credits include the literary adaptations The Great Gatsby (1926) and Laugh Clown Laugh (1928). Her early-talkie assignments sometimes took her away from the big studios and into the independents, as witness Oliver Twist (Goldstone/Monogram, 1933) and Harmony Lane (Mascot, 1935). Elizabeth Meehan spent her last active decade at such studios as RKO and Paramount; her final effort was 1945's Out of This World, a satire of celebrity worship. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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