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Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron was an American writer, playwright, journalist, and filmmaker. Known for writing and directing romantic comedy films, she received numerous accolades including a BAFTA Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards, a Tony Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three Writers Guild of America Awards.
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culture · American writer, journalist and filmmaker (1941–2012) · screenwriter · film producer · film director · journalist · novelist · reporter · essayist · playwright · writer · blogger · also Nora Ephron, Norah Louise Ephron, Ephron
Born 19 May 1941 · Died 26 June 2012 · Q214677
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2026· 5 entries
“No one, apart from my sons, believed me.”
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“She was very Jewish, culturally and emotionally. She identified fully as a Jewish woman.”
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“s suggestions. Additionally, the comment”
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CBC.ca: Nora Ephron’s vinaigrette is as classic as her films
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2025· 3 entries
Yahoo: Nora Ephron Quotes: 11 Genius Lines From the Writer and Director
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The Guardian: I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron audiobook review – bold truth-telling
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Nora Ephron at the Movies’ Review: Cruel Words, Happy Endings
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2024· 3 entries
IndieWire: ‘Nora Ephron at the Movies’ Reveals Why the Legendary Writer Was Everyone’s Best Friend
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Bustle: On The Internet, It’s Always Nora Ephron Fall
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The Guardian: From meet-cute to marriage breakdown: Streep and Nicholson shine in Nora Ephron’s bittersweet Heartburn
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2023· 2 entries
collider: Nora Ephron Was Way More Than Just a Rom-Com Queen
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The Guardian: Sleepless in Seattle at 30: Nora Ephron’s romcom still worth falling for
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2022· 2 entries
collider: Bewitched Is Nora Ephron's Hidden Gem That Deserves More Recognition
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The Guardian: ‘All her movies are nonfiction’: remembering the life and work of Nora Ephron
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Love, Loss and What I Wore review – all dressed up by the Ephron sisters
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2017· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: This is Nora Ephron’s recipe for monkey bread
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2013· 3 entries
To Meera Menon for her film Farah Goes Bang
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Received a posthumous Tony Award nomination for Best Play for Lucky Guy, her last play
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On Broadway and starred Tom Hanks as a newspaper journalist Mike McAlary
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2012· 8 entries
E!: Nora Ephron, RIP: Tom Hanks, Nicole Kidman, Billy Crystal and More Mourn Writer-Director's Death
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Digital Spy: Nora Ephron 1941-2012: Hollywood pays tribute to writer and director
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Ephron died at Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan from pneumonia, as a complication of leukemia, at the age of 71
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Died 2012-06-26.
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“The function of a blog is on some level to start a conversation that you're not involved in any more because you've already had your say. That thing of coming right off the news — did you see what I saw this morning, can you believe it? — has a kind of fun appeal.”
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“It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever after" and the following quarter century warning that they'll be lucky to make it through the weekend. Possibly now we are entering a third era, in which the movies will be sounding a note of cautious optimism: You know, it just might work.”
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“Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist.”
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“Me parece que el anhelo de casarse, que siento decirlo, considero básico y primordial para las mujeres, sgue casi de inmediato una urgencia igualmente primordial: volver a ser soltera.”
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2007· 2 entries
Ephron received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member George Lucas
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“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four.”
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2006· 1 entry
Ephron was diagnosed with myelodysplasia
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1998· 1 entry
Nora Ephron directed the film You've Got Mail, which she co-wrote with her sister Delia Ephron
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1994).
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Nora Ephron was awarded the Women in Film Crystal Award
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1993· 1 entry
Ephron directed and wrote the script for the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle
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1992· 1 entry
“s novel This is Your Life. The film is about a woman who decides to pursue a career in stand-up comedy after inheriting a substantial sum of money from a relative. In a conversation released by Criterion Channel between Lena Dunham, and Ephron, she stated”
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1990· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for When Harry Met Sally (1990).
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1989· 1 entry
The film was directed by Rob Reiner, and starred Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan
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1986· 2 entries
Ephron wrote the script for the romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally
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Directed by Mike Nichols starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson
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1983· 1 entry
Ephron co-scripted the film Silkwood with Alice Arlen
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1979· 1 entry
Ephron was pregnant with their second son when she discovered Bernstein's affair with their mutual friend, British journalist Margaret Jay, the daughter of former British prime minister James Callaghan, who was at the ti
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1976· 1 entry
Married journalist Carl Bernstein with whom she had two sons
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1966· 1 entry
Broke the news in the Post that Bob Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a private ceremony
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1962· 1 entry
Studied at Wellesley College (1962).
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1958· 2 entries
And from Wellesley College in Massachusetts in 1962 with a degree in political science
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Studied at Beverly Hills High School (1958).
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-05-19.
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