Screenwriter/Producer/Playwright/: Born March 03, 1922 - Fort Worth, TX Highly skilled scenarist (especially with adaptations) who in the 1960s and 70s turned out a number of superior scripts with strong, female protagonists, often winning awards for the actresses portraying them. Jay Presson Allen scored her biggest success in 1966, when she adapted Muriel Spark's novel THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE for the stage; three years later, her screenplay adaptation of the same property won her an Academy Award nomination. Her subsequent Broadway efforts have included 40 CARATS, while her screen credits have embraced such projects as CABARET (1972), FUNNY LADY (1975) and JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT (1980, from her own novel).
