Norma Barzman

Norma Levor Barzman (born September 15, 1920) is an American screenwriter, actress and writer[1] who has been active in the film industry since the Golden Age of Hollywood.[2][3][4]

Norma Barzman
Born
Norma Levor

(1920-09-15) September 15, 1920
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupations
  • Screenwriter
  • actress
  • writer
Years active1946–present
Spouses
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    (m. 1940; div. 1941)​
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    (m. 1942; died 1989)​
Children7, including Paolo

Life and career

Barzman was born on September 15, 1920, in New York City, New York. She started her career in 1946 writing the original story for Never Say Goodbye and The Locket. Later, she also wrote Finishing School (1952) and Il triangolo rosso (1967).[5]

Barzman also appeared as an actress[6] in Theatre 70 (1970) and Pajama Party (2000) as the Groovy Grandma guest.[7]

Personal life

Barzman married mathematician Claude Shannon,[8] known as the "father of information theory",[9] and lived with him in Princeton, New Jersey. When they divorced, Barzman moved to Los Angeles with her mother and took classes at the School for Writers, the members of which were leftist. She met and married screenwriter Ben Barzman.[10] Between the years 1949 and 1976 they lived in London, Paris, and Mougins (France), having been blacklisted from Hollywood. They had seven children.[11] She resides in Beverly Hills, California.[12]

Filmography

Writer

Actress
  • Pajama Party (2000) - Groovy Grandma guest
  • Theatre 70 (1960) - Narrator

Documentary

Books
  • The End of Romance: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and the Mystery of the Violin (2006)[13]
  • The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate (2002)[14]
  • Rich Dreams (1982)[15]

References
  1. "Norma BARZMAN". Festival de Cannes 2021. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  2. "Norma Barzman". UCLA. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  3. Rampell, Ed (2005-01-01). Progressive Hollywood: A People's Film History of the United States. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 978-1-932857-10-8.
  4. Prime, Rebecca (2014-01-14). Hollywood Exiles in Europe: The Blacklist and Cold War Film Culture. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-6263-6.
  5. Wald, Alan M. (2012-10-15). American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-3734-4.
  6. McDonagh, Fintan (2021-07-21). Edward Dmytryk: Reassessing His Films and Life. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-4314-4.
  7. "Blacklisted screenwriter Norma Barzman opens 'Hollywood Exiles in Europe' series". UCLA. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  8. Guardian Staff (2005-10-21). "I was a Hollywood communist". the Guardian. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  9. "I saw this movie last August at a showing at the Computer History Museum and one... | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  10. "Tender Comrades, interviews with blacklisted film industry figures by Paul Buhle (by L. Proyect)". www.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  11. "Norma Barzman, now 102, victim Hollywood blacklist: "Marilyn Monroe came to warn us"". filmtalk.org. 2022-08-23.
  12. independent, Susan King Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories She also wrote about; foreign; Movies, Studio; TV, occasionally; Orange, theater stories Born in East; N.J.; History, She Received Her Master’s Degree in Film; Examiner, criticism at USC She worked for 10 years at the L. A. Herald; in 2016, came to work at The Times in January 1990 She left (2014-07-12). "Classic Hollywood: Blacklisted writer Norma Barzman to kick off UCLA film series". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  13. Norma Barzman (2006-03-01). The End of Romance A Memoir of Love, Sex, and the Mystery of the Violin. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-56025-813-1.
  14. "9781560254669: The Red and the Blacklist: The Intimate Memoir of a Hollywood Expatriate (Nation Books) - AbeBooks - Barzman, Norma: 1560254661". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  15. "9780446900348: Rich Dreams - AbeBooks - Ben And Norma Barzman: 0446900346". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
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