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Nancy Dowd is an American screenwriter who won an Oscar for Coming Home. She also wrote Slap Shot, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, and other films.
Nancy Dowd is an Oscar-winning writer and director, known for Slap Shot, Coming Home and Love. She was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA and has a brother named Ned Dowd.
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Nancy Dowd is a writer and director of Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982). She was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA and is the sister of Ned Dowd.
Breakout Female Screenwriter of the 70’s. After graduating from Smith College, Nancy enrolls at UCLA determined to forge a career writing for film. Not only does she succeed, she ends up writing some of the most renowned films of the 70s and 80s, and even winning an Oscar for her first feature script COMING HOME, but while the original script ...
Feb 19, 2024 · Nancy Dowd had shadowed Ned’s team, the Johnstown Jets, for a month during the 1974-75 season of the North American Hockey League (NAHL), about the lowest rung of the minors, a place...
Nancy Dowd wrote the 1977 sports comedy film Slap Shot, starring Paul Newman as a player-coach of a minor league ice hockey team. The film was based on her brother's experiences and became a cult classic.
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Nancy Dowd is a female screenwriter who penned some of the most memorable films of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Slap Shot, Coming Home, and Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. She won an Oscar for Coming Home, but her work is often overlooked or uncredited in film commentary.
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