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Aug 9, 2019 · Melissa Mathison was born Melissa Marie Mathison, on June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles, to Richard Randolph Mathison and Margaret (Pegeen) Jean Mathison (née Kieffer). Her father was the Los Angeles bureau chief of ‘Newsweek,’ and her mother was a food writer and a convenience-food entrepreneur. She had a happy childhood in Hollywood Hills and ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Veteran screenwriter Melissa Mathison has died of neuroendocrine cancer at the age of 65. Mathison was most famous for writing E.T., though in the course of her three-decade career she also penned ...
Nov 5, 2015 · Melissa Marie Mathison was born June 3, 1950, in Los Angeles. Her father was the Los Angeles bureau chief for Newsweek. “We weren’t your mainstream ’50s family,” she said in an interview ...
Melissa Mathison died of neuroendocrine cancer in Los Angeles on November 4, 2015. She was 65 years old. Show Less Show More. Photos THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, Melissa Mathison, 1995. See all ...
Sep 12, 2023 · Harrison Ford's divorce from Melissa Mathison was one of the most expensive in show business, with Mathison receiving an $85 million settlement and a portion of Ford's future earnings. Ford's pay for his early roles, such as Han Solo in Star Wars, was significantly lower compared to his later films, but he eventually earned a base salary of $15 ...
Jul 14, 2017 · Melissa Mathison and Steven Spielberg at the 20th anniversary screening of ET. Photograph: Kevin Winter/Getty Images. Spielberg credited her heavily for the film’s enormous success, saying on ...
Nov 4, 2015 · Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, an Academy Award nominee for “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,” died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after an illness, according to her brother Dirk Mathison. She was 65.
