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Aug 20, 2001 3:14pm PT. Lester Pine. By Doug Galloway. Lester Pine, prolific TV writer and one half of the husband-wife team that wrote such films as “A Man Called Adam,” died Aug. 11 of...
Aug 17, 2001 · Lester Pine, 84, a stand-up comedian of the 1940s who became a television and motion picture writer for such series as “Ben Casey” and such films as “Claudine,” starring Diahann Carroll, died...
Lester Pine. Writer: Claudine. Lester Pine was born on 5 December 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Claudine (1974), Popi (1969) and Peter Gunn (1958). He was married to Tina Pine. He died on 11 August 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- December 5, 1917
- Lester Pine
- August 11, 2001
Claudine was written by Lester Pine and Tina Pine, produced by Third World Cinema, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, starring James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs. The film was released on April 22, 1974, grossing about $6 million, a modest hit for the times.
- $1.1 million
- Hannah Weinstein
“At that time, the welfare system was a mess,” Daniel Pine, son of Claudine screenwriters Lester and Tina, recalls. “On the one hand, recipients, mostly single mothers, were ineligible for benefits if they worked outside the home. On the other hand, most available jobs paid less than a living wage.
Tina Pine was born on 31 July 1923 in New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Claudine (1974), Popi (1969) and The Baron of Arizona (1950). She was married to Lester Pine. She died on 3 November 1998 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Claudine (1974) by Tina and Lester Pine is touted as a "heart and soul comedy" about a struggling, single mother of six feisty children, who takes a rare leap of faith to date a smooth and amorous garbage man. Claudine Price (Diahann Carroll) thinks she found herself a prince of a man in Rupert "Roop" Marshall (James Earl Jones)-a hardworking ...
