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Nancy Dowd (born 1945) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose credits include the films Slap Shot and Coming Home.
Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a declining factory town.
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
Coming Home is a 1978 American romantic war drama film directed by Hal Ashby from a screenplay written by Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones with story by Nancy Dowd. It stars Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine and Robert Ginty.
Nancy Dowd was born in 1945 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. She is a writer and director, known for Slap Shot (1977), Coming Home (1978) and Love (1982).
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...
Oct 26, 2023 · Nancy Dowd’s most high-profile work came next, when the screenwriter toiled alongside Waldo Salt and Robert C. Jones on the script for Hal Ashby’s masterful 1978 drama, Coming Home, the tough, unflinching and truly lyrical story of a married woman (Jane Fonda) who has an affair with a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran (Jon Voight), leading ...
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, 1978 · Writer Nancy Dowd spent more than six months fashioning a discursive, 230page screenplay called “Buffalo Ghosts.” Initially, she had resisted the idea of having a paraplegic as a key figure,...
Mar 3, 1977 · Nancy Dowd is a sweet‐faced Smith College graduate from a proper Massachusetts family. She is 31 years old, has a trim figure and perfect teeth, and she would seem to be the...
