
Writing
Dalene Young
Born 1939-06-29 · Hawaii, USA
Dalene Young (June 29, 1939 — May 9, 2025) was an American screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor. She was best known for writing the coming-of-age comedy-drama Little Darlings (1980), featuring Tatum O’Neal and Kristy McNichol, and the Mary Steenburgen-starring drama Cross Creek (1983). Young received a Daytime Emmy nomination for co-writing the Showtime children’s special Locked in Silence (1999) and landed a Christopher Award and a Humanitas Prize nomination for her work on the NBC telefilm Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted (1992).
Acting credits
6.6A truffle hunter who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must visit Portland to find the mysterious person who stole his beloved foraging pig.
Pig
2021
4.1Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms.
Teen Lust
1978
7.0This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
4.9A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.
Sonny Boy
1989
6.5Mario, a gangster, takes the fifth amendment when being questioned by the Senate Sub Committee on his connection with racketeering within the juke box industry. While in a small New Jersey town, teenagers Bob, Judy, Ginger, Seymour and Betty go to the train station to pick up Judy's cousin-from-Tennessee, Lulubelle . They take her to their local hangout, a pizzeria called "Mom & Pops", a broken down place ran by a couple named Mom and Pop.
Juke Box Racket
1960
A story centered around Lee, a young woman whose considerable charm masks an almost innate desire to destroy - especially when it comes to the man who loves her most, a struggling artist named Angelo. Unable to earn a living Lee Ann has found a way out, selling her babies whenever she finds herself pregnant. Caring deeply for children, Angelo is troubled by this, but is torn by his love for Lee Ann. It takes on a whole new dimension when he learns the strange and funny middle class childless couple that has agreed to buy Lee Ann's baby has a past more shocking than he'd ever imagined.
Baby Luv
2000
Behind the camera
6.5Two 15-year-old girls from different sides of the tracks compete to see who will be first to lose their virginity while at camp.
Little Darlings
1980
5.4Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.
The Baby-Sitters Club
1995
6.6In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.
Cross Creek
1983
6.5A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
The Plutonium Incident
1980
5.4Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.
Deadman's Curve
1978
6.3Margaret, who has certain mental disabilities, struggles when her husband, Jake, is diagnosed with schizophrenia and the authorities wish to take her children away from her. She has to prove in a court of law that she is capable of taking care of her family.
The Yarn Princess
1994
7.0This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Will There Really Be a Morning?
1983
5.4A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Panic in Echo Park
1977
5.415-year-old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. She meets Alexander, a young male hustler who takes her in, but when she starts working for a pimp, Alexander becomes a target.
Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway
1976
6.1A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in the family... so he doesn't say anything again. The problem is that the young boy so enjoys his acceptance by others of his mutism that it brings his family, a loving and caring farm family, to the brink of financial ruin in medical and psychological costs to cure him. Based on a true story, this is the intelligent telling of a family in crisis, and the work of doctors in dealing with this mental illness.
Locked in Silence
1999
5.2Janice is the subject of the town gossips for four reasons: she wears too much lipstick, her hair is too big, she is a single-mother and her two children are strange. Ray (6) is a hellraiser and Tony (9) is autistic. One day, however, Tony sits down at the piano and plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Janice knows there may be hope for him (and them) yet.
Journey of the Heart
1997
6.3Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.
1977
7.7A retired school teacher is reminded of her past after she befriends with one of her former students, Todd Cope.
The Last Dance
2000
5.6An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Why Me?
1984
6.0Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return to college and get the degree she always wanted. "Is there life beyond her family and home?", Lily wonders. The hole in Lily's life is soon filled by too much. There's a confusing new social life on campus, schoolwork keeping her up late, a part-time job keeping her from her husband and kids whose mom is turning into a stranger. Lily's strength, love and perseverance are the only things that can help her now.
Is There Life Out There?
1994
Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.
Pale Horse Pale Rider
1981
NRA Down-syndrome boy left in an institute by his parents. Ginny works in the institute and wants to have Jonathan but has to fight the system and the parents.
Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted
1992
10.0A woman, her lover and her best friend cope with the tragedy of her misdiagnosed medical condition.
I Love You Perfect
1989
A story centered around Lee, a young woman whose considerable charm masks an almost innate desire to destroy - especially when it comes to the man who loves her most, a struggling artist named Angelo. Unable to earn a living Lee Ann has found a way out, selling her babies whenever she finds herself pregnant. Caring deeply for children, Angelo is troubled by this, but is torn by his love for Lee Ann. It takes on a whole new dimension when he learns the strange and funny middle class childless couple that has agreed to buy Lee Ann's baby has a past more shocking than he'd ever imagined.
Baby Luv
2000