Eleanor Perry

Writing

Eleanor Perry

Born 1914-10-13 · Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Eleanor Perry (October 13, 1914 – March 14, 1981) was an American screenwriter and author.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Swimmer poster
7.4

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

The Swimmer

1968

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing poster
5.9

On the run from her violent husband, a woman witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

1973

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing poster
5.9

On the run from her violent husband, a woman witnesses a train robbery and is taken prisoner by a frontier outlaw gang, led by a bandit who’s hiding a secret of his own.

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

1973

Last Summer poster
6.2

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

Last Summer

1969

Diary of a Mad Housewife poster
6.2

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970

David and Lisa poster
7.2

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

David and Lisa

1962

David and Lisa poster
6.0

A psychiatrist tries to treat an emotionally disturbed teenage boy who has a pathological fear of being touched. The only person who can communicate emotionally with the young patient is a girl suffering from split personalities who speaks in rhymes and withdraws from anyone who refuses to do the same.

David and Lisa

1998

A Christmas Memory poster
6.5

As Christmastime approaches in rural, Depression-era Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the impending holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for "people who've struck our fancy." On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and frailer. Based on Truman Capote's autobiographical short story.

A Christmas Memory

1966

Ladybug Ladybug poster
6.9

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nuclear attack.

Ladybug Ladybug

1963

Trilogy poster
6.2

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Trilogy

1969

The House Without a Christmas Tree poster
6.7

A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.

The House Without a Christmas Tree

1972

The Thanksgiving Treasure poster
7.8

Addie tries to invite her father's sworn enemy over for Thanksgiving dinner in the hopes of ending their long-standing feud.

The Thanksgiving Treasure

1973