13 Facts About Lucille Fletcher

Violet Lucille Fletcher was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television.

Lucille Fletcher's credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series.

Lucille Fletcher wrote Sorry, Wrong Number, one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American radio, which she adapted and expanded for the 1948 film noir classic of the same name.

Violet Lucille Fletcher was born March 28,1912, in Brooklyn, New York.

Lucille Fletcher's parents were Matthew Emerson Fletcher, a marine draftsman for the Standard Ship Company, and Violet Fletcher.

The only female finalist in the New York zone, Lucille Fletcher received an all-expenses paid trip to South America, a gold medal, a cash prize of $1,000 and an opportunity to compete for the national championship.

Lucille Fletcher attended Vassar College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree with honors in 1933.

From 1934 to 1939, Lucille Fletcher worked as a music librarian, copyright clerk and publicity writer at CBS.

Lucille Fletcher adapted the first part of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights into a libretto for Bernard Herrmann's opera of the same name, conceived in 1943.

Lucille Fletcher completed the opera in June 1951, by which time they had divorced.

Lucille Fletcher said the opera was "perhaps the closest to his talent and heart".

Lucille Fletcher is interviewed in the 1992 documentary, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Lucille Fletcher married Douglass Wallop, a writer, on January 6,1949.