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Hannah Weinstein (née Dorner; June 23, 1911 – March 9, 1984) was an American-British journalist, publicist and left-wing political activist who moved to Britain and became a television producer. She is best remembered for having produced The Adventures of Robin Hood television series in the mid-to-late 1950s.
Mar 11, 1984 · Hannah Weinstein, a Hollywood film producer and a political activist, died of a heart attack Friday at her home on Park Avenue. She was 72 years old.
Mar 29, 2024 · Activism was the family business: Her mother, Hannah Weinstein, was a journalist and speechwriter who in 1950 took her three young daughters to live in Paris and then London, fleeing the grim and...
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American film producer and political activist. Born Hannah Dorner on June 23, 1911, in New York City; died of a heart attack on March 9, 1984, in New York; daughter of Israel Dorner and Celia (Kaufman) Dorner; New York University, B.A., 1927; married Peter Weinstein (a journalist), in 1938 (divorced 1955); children: daughters Dina Weinstein ...
Hannah Weinstein was born on 23 June 1911 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer, known for Stir Crazy (1980), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955) and Claudine (1974). She died on 9 March 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Hannah Weinstein was a blacklisted writer who left the US in 1950 with her three young daughters and founded Sapphire Films in England, a company that went on to inaugurate the costume drama craze of the fifties before returning to the US in the 1960s and, with Ossie Davis, James Earl Jones, and Rita Moreno, founding Third World Cinema Corporation.
Sep 21, 2023 · Award-winning biographer Julia Bricklin’s spellbinding Red Sapphire: The Woman Who Beat the Blacklist recounts a remarkable tale of blacklist-era resistance in the story of Hannah Weinstein, a left-liberal American journalist, publicist, speechwriter, and political activist who chose European exile for herself and her young daughters as ...