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- Van Upp was born in Chicago, the daughter of Harry and Helen Van Upp. Mrs Van Upp had been an editor and title writer for Thomas H. Ince. Van Upp performed in several silent films as a child actress. She soon worked her way up in the film industry, becoming a script writer, film editor, script reader, casting director, and agent.
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Van Upp was born in Chicago, the daughter of Harry and Helen Van Upp. Mrs Van Upp had been an editor and title writer for Thomas H. Ince. Van Upp performed in several silent films as a child actress. She soon worked her way up in the film industry, becoming a script writer, film editor, script reader, casting director, and agent. Career
Mar 20, 2017 · She had worked as a child actress, a script girl, a film cutter, and finally as a writer for a decade-long stint at Paramount Studios. Her move to Columbia would prove to be a lucrative career choice. Her first screenplay Cover Girl was released that year, transposing a fairy tale onto the life of a Brooklyn showgirl, and it was a box office smash.
Producer: Gilda. Virginia Van Upp was a producer and screenwriter who worked her way up in the film industry after having been a script reader, script editor, casting director, and agent. She was married with one child when she was named Executive Producer of Columbia Pictures by Harry Cohn in 1945.
Began career as a child actress in early silent films, then became script girl, cutter, reader and casting director for Paramount; named executive producer at Columbia, a protégée of Harry Cohn (1945); screenplays include The Pursuit of Happiness, So Red the Rose, Poppy, Easy to Take, Swing High Swing Low, St. Louis Blues, You and Me, Cafe ...
Virginia Van Upp began her film career as a five-year-old child actress. Upon reaching adulthood, Van Upp determined to learn the production end of the business. Starting out as a script girl, she worked her way up to screenwriter and in this capacity kept busy at Paramount from 1930 to 1943.
- January 1, 1902
- March 25, 1970
Began career in film as a child actor in silent films, and worked variously as a script assistant, agent, scenarist, and casting director; worked as a scriptwriter for Paramount Pictures and became a scriptwriter, producer, and executive producer for Columbia Pictures; producer of films such as Gilda, Columbia Pictures Corporation, 1942. WRITINGS:
As a child she appeared in several silent films and as she became older, she worked her way up in the film industry becoming a script writer, film editor, script reader, casting director and agent. Her very first screenplay credit was for Paramount Pictures' "The Pursuit of Happiness" (1934) and wrote screenplays throughout the 1930s for that ...
