Nora Ephron

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Nora Ephron (EF-r) (1941-42; May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, writer, and film director.

She is best known for her romantic comedies, was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Writing (1983), When Harry Met Sally (1989), and Sleepless in Seattle (1993).

When Harry Met Sally, she received the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. Delia Ephron used to write with her sister Delia Ephron.

Julie & Julia (2009), her last film.

Imaginary Friends, her first stage performance, was lauded as one of the best performances of the 2002–03 New York theatre season.

She has also co-authored the Drama Desk Award-winning dramatic film Love, Loss, and What I Wore.

In 2013, Ephron received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy.

Early life and education

Ephron was born in New York City on May 19, 1941, to a Jewish family. She was the eldest of four children and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. Phoebe (née Wolkind) and Henry Ephron, her parents, were both born on the East Coast and were known playwrights and screenwriters. Nora was named by her parents after the protagonist of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House. Delia and Amy, Nora's younger sister, are also screenwriters. Hallie Ephron is a journalist, book reviewer, and author of crime fiction. In the play and film version of Take Her, She's Mine, Ephron based the ingenue character; Sandra Dee played the role based on Nora's father, with James Stewart portraying her father. Both her parents became alcoholics in their teen years.

Ephron, a high school student, aspired to be another Dorothy Parker, an American poet, writer,satirist, and critic. Ephron cited her high school journalism instructor, Charles Simms, as the source for her interest in journalism. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1958 and later from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science.

Personal life

Ephron was married three times. Dan Greenburg, the author's first marriage, ended in divorce after nine years. She married journalist Carl Bernstein in 1976. When Ephron found Bernstein's affair with their mutual friend, former British prime minister James Callaghan, in 1979, she was pregnant with her second son Max. Ephron was inspired by this to write Heartburn, a 1983 book by Mike Nichols, starring Jack Nicholson and Meryl Strickson. "Ephron wrote about a husband named Mark, who was "capable of having sex with a Venetian blind," in the book. Thelma (based on Margaret Jay) seemed to be based on a giraffe with "large feet," she later wrote. Bernstein had hoped to sue over the book and film but not so successful.

Ephron was married for more than 20 years to screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi, from 1987 to her death in 2012. The couple lived in Los Angeles and New York City.

"She was very Jewish, culturally, and emotionally," Ephron's companion Richard Cohen said of her. She identified herself as a Jewish woman at any point. However, Ephron was not religious. "You can never have too much butter," I say. In an NPR interview about her 2009 film Julie & Julia, she said, "If I have a faith, that's it."

Jacob Bernstein, Ephron's uncle, produced Everything Is Copy, a HBO film about her life. He is a reporter for The New York Times as of 2021.

Ephron was one of the few people to have known the identity of Deep Throat, the anonymous informer for articles written by her ex-husband Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward that exposed the Watergate affair for many years. Ephron read Bernstein's book, which referred to Deep Throat as "MF"; Bernstein said it stood for "My Friend," but Ephron correctly assumed it was for Mark Felt, the former FBI associate director.

Ephron revealed Deep Throat's identity to her son Jacob and anyone else who inquired after Ephron's marriage with Bernstein came to an end. "I would give addresses to 500 people and someone would say, 'Do you know who Deep Throat is?" she said. "It's Mark Felt," I'd say. Jacob Bernstein's classmates at Dalton School and Vassar College all remember him when he told many people that he Felt was Deep Throat. During the many years that Deep Throat's identity was a mystery, there was no media interest. "No one, except for my sons, believed me," Ephron said. Arianna Huffington had invited Ephron to write about the Huffington Post, for which she was a regular blogger and part-time editor.

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Career

Ephron served briefly as an intern in the White House of President John F. Kennedy after graduating from Wellesley College in 1962. She also applied to be a writer at Newsweek. She was told that they did not hire women writers, so she accepted a position as a mail girl.

Ephron's role in a 2016 Amazon series by the identical main title Good Girls Revolt was fictionalized after she stopped writing Newsweek because she wasn't allowed to write, and she continued to work in a class action lawsuit against Newsweek for sexual harassment, which was outlined in the book The Women of Newsweek: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace by Lynn Povich, and the book The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek

Ephron accepted a position at the New York Post after a satire in Monocle caught the editor's eye. She had worked as a reporter for five years. In 1966, she broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony. She began writing a column for Esquire on women's topics. Ephron made a name for herself by writing "A Few Words About Breasts," a satire essay about body image that "established her as the enfant terrible of the New Journalism." Dorothy Schiff, her former boss and owner of the Post; Betty Friedan, who chastised for pursuing a feud with Gloria Steinem; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out "a generation of docile and unadventurous women" while at Esquire. A 1968 Women's Wear Daily columnista writes that writing for Cosmopolitan resulted in lawsuits from WWD.

In the mid-1970s, Ephron rewrote a script for All the President's Men, as well as her then-husband Carl Bernstein. Although the script was not used, it was seen by someone who offered Ephron her first screenwriting job for a television film, which began her screenwriting career.

Ephron scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen in 1983. Meryl Steedwood, a whistleblower at the Kerr McGee Cimarron nuclear plant who dies under questionable circumstances, appears in the film, directed by Mike Nichols. In 1984, Ephron and Arlen were nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Silkwood.

Heartburn, Ephron's book, was released in 1983. Carl Bernstein's marriage is portrayed in a semi-autobiographical story. The film version was released in 1986 and starred Meryl Steed and Jack Nicholson. Ephron converted her own book into the film's screenplay. When she learns about her husband's affair, Ephron's fictionalized version of herself, played by Steffiep, becomes a pregnant food writer.

In 1986, Ephron wrote the script for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... Rob Reiner, directed Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, made the film, which was released in 1989. The film portrays Harry (Crystal) and Sally (Ryan) as they navigate their own intimate relationships. Ephron has said that she wrote this screenplay with Reiner in mind as the character of Harry and herself as Sally's character. The film has made a name for itself in the romantic comedy genre, especially for the scene in which Sally claims to have an orgasm in the middle of Katz's Deli at lunch. According to Meg Ryan's plans, Ephron said she wrote the part of Sally simulating an orgasm into the script. In addition, Billy Crystal's remark, "I'll have what she's having" said by a deli patron (played by Rob Reiner's real-life mother Estelle Reiner) who was standing nearby, enjoying the scene. In 1990, Ephron's script was nominated for the Best Writing, Screenplay, Written Specifically for the Screen Award.

This Is My Life, Ephron's debut film, was released in 1992. This is Your Life by Ephron and her sister Delia Ephron. After inheriting a substantial sum of money from a relative, a woman who decides to pursue a career in stand-up comedy is the subject of the film. "I made absolutely for Woody Allen" in a Criterion Channel interview between Lena Dunham and Ephron. She later admitted that she saw it and liked it in the talk.

Ephron wrote and produced the script for the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle in 1993. Tom Hanks stars Sam Baldwin, a newly widowed father whose son calls into a Chicago-based radio talk show in the hopes of finding his father a new partner. Annie Reed, a Baltimore resident portrayed by Meg Ryan, becomes infatuated with Sam and arranges a rendezvous for the two characters to meet in New York City after hearing this call.

In 1994, she was given the Women in Film Crystal Award.

Ephron wrote the script for the film You've Got Mail in 1998, which she coproduced with her sister Delia Ephron and directed. The story is a loose recreation of Ernst Lubitsch's 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner. Meg Ryan, the owner of a small, independent children's bookstore in New York City, appears in You've Got Mail. Fox Books, a Barnes & Noble-esque book selling chain, has now put her peaceful life in jeopardy, which opens near her Barnes & Noble book selling chain. Joe Fox, a Tom Hanks-led Fox Books, is the author of this article. Joe and Kathleen navigate a turbulent company conflict while simultaneously establishing a close business relationship by email.

In 2007, Ephron received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement, presented by Awards Council member George Lucas.

Julie and Julia's screenplay was produced and co-wrote by Ephron in 2009. The film is based on Julie Powell's blog and memoir of the same name. Julia Child, Meryl Streep's most popular American chef, and Julie Powell, a New Yorker trying to cook her way through Children's cookbook, portrayed by Amy Adams, are the subject of the film. The film flashes back to Child's first stages of her life as she trains in a French culinary academy as Powell shares her encounter. The film was a commercial success.

The plot Imaginary Friends, written by Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy in 2002, explores writer Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy's rivalry. Love, Loss, and What I Wore was written by Ilene Beckerman with her sister Delia, and the show has attracted sell-out audiences in Canada, New York City, and Los Angeles.

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