1. Hagar Wilde was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter from the 1930s through the 1950s.
10 Facts About Hagar Wilde
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Hagar Wilde is perhaps best known for the screenplays for Bringing Up Baby and I Was a Male War Bride, two Howard Hawks films, both starring Cary Grant.
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Hagar Wilde was born Beverly Violet Bidwell in Toledo, Ohio.
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Hagar Wilde's association with director Howard Hawks included co-writing the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby, and the screenplay for I Was a Male War Bride.
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Hagar Wilde co-wrote the screenplay for The Unseen, with Raymond Chandler, based on the novel Midnight House by Ethel Lina White.
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Hagar Wilde's first stage success was a "taut little horror drama" titled Guest in the House ; she co-wrote the play with Dale Eunson, and it was adapted into a film in 1944.
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Hagar Wilde divorced Heyn and married her third husband, actor Stephen Bekassy, in 1941.
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Hagar Wilde had a daughter, Stephanie, with Bekassy, before they divorced in 1953.
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Hagar Wilde's fourth husband was an Englishman; that marriage ended.
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Hagar Wilde died in 1971 at the Motion Picture Country Home in California, aged 66 years.