Google Groups no longer supports new Usenet posts or subscriptions. Historical content remains viewable.
Dismiss
Tania Rose, 95, screenwriter
127 views
Skip to first unread message
Diner
Oct 27, 2015, 4:15:02 PM10/27/15
to
While this obit lists her as a co-writer on some of her ex-husband William Rose's most famous movies, IMDB only lists two credits for her: as a co-writer on "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," and story credit on the 1955 Ealing comedy "Touch and Go" (story by William Rose and Tania Rose, screenplay by William Rose).
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Ladykillers-scriptwriter-Gloucestershire-village/story-28041941-detail/story.html
'The Ladykillers' scriptwriter from Gloucestershire village dies aged 95
By The Citizen | Posted: October 23, 2015
By Hugh Worsnip
Tania Rose who co-wrote the screen plays for some of the most famous British and Hollywood films of the 1950s and 60s has died at her home in Tibberton at the age of 95.
With her American husband, William, she put together a string of award winning scripts including "Genevieve" (1953) "The Ladykillers" (1955) "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) and "The Russians Are Coming" (1966).
Their most acclaimed collaboration was the ground breaking "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967), directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy. It was the first film to tackle the subject of mixed marriages at the time of the burgeoning civil rights movement in the USA, was acclaimed worldwide and won two Academy Awards.
Their film work ended with their divorce after which she went on to have a successful career as a leading official of the Race Relations Board and, later, the Commission for Racial Equality.
Mrs Rose was born Margaret Tatiana Price in Berlin, Germany, in 1920 where her father, Morgan Philips Price, fresh from reporting the Russian Revolution for the "Manchester Guardian" had taken a job as foreign correspondent of the "Daily Herald" newspaper. In 1919 he met and married Lisa Balster, secretary and confidante of socialist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg. Bullets zipped across the Unter den Linden as they took a honeymoon stroll while factions fought for supremacy in post WW1 Germany.
German was spoken at home, so Tania had to brush up on her English when the family moved back to England and settled at The Grove in Taynton. Lisa was astonished to find that her husband was the squire of Tibberton, a major landowner, fox hunter and part owner of Price Walker, Gloucester's biggest timber importer. He had omitted to tell her his true background for fear she would reject him as a suitable husband! Price later became Labour MP for the Forest of Dean and Father of the House of Commons.
Tania, and her brother, Peter, grew up on the family estate, were privately educated, and introduced to a variety of celebrities who were guests at the Grove including Sir Edward Elgar, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Ransome. One day Tania accompanied Ransome on a fishing expedition to the nearby River Leadon where he became so engrossed in the angling that he refused to speak to her. The occasion was later immortalised in Ransome's essay "To catch a Tench."
In 1943 Tania married William Rose at Tibberton Church. He was an American from Jefferson City, Missouri, who had joined the Canadian Black Watch to fight the Nazis and stayed in Britain when hostilities ceased, continuing his career in the film industry with the help of his bride. Their films won a total of two Academy Awards, a Bafta, an Edgar and three US Writers Guild prizes. They were nominated for awards on 13 occasions.
Tania Rose retired from the Commission in 1980 but continued to write, producing a biography, "T'was Brillig", editing her fathers letters, and researching the history of the Price family back to the time it first arrived in Tibberton in the 1730s. She survived a serious illness in 2002 and with the help of carers, organised by her granddaughter, Eleanor, continued to live in a flat at Tibberton Court, where she died on October 15. For many years she was the President of the Tibberton and District Horticultural Society and supporter of the Taynton & Tibberton Village Hall.
Her non religious funeral was held at the Forest of Dean Crematorium on October 22.
She is survived by her daughter, Alison Evans; granddaughters Claudia and Eleanor and four great grand children.
Copyright © 2015 Local World. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Ladykillers-scriptwriter-Gloucestershire-village/story-28041941-detail/story.html
'The Ladykillers' scriptwriter from Gloucestershire village dies aged 95
By The Citizen | Posted: October 23, 2015
By Hugh Worsnip
Tania Rose who co-wrote the screen plays for some of the most famous British and Hollywood films of the 1950s and 60s has died at her home in Tibberton at the age of 95.
With her American husband, William, she put together a string of award winning scripts including "Genevieve" (1953) "The Ladykillers" (1955) "Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963) and "The Russians Are Coming" (1966).
Their most acclaimed collaboration was the ground breaking "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" (1967), directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy. It was the first film to tackle the subject of mixed marriages at the time of the burgeoning civil rights movement in the USA, was acclaimed worldwide and won two Academy Awards.
Their film work ended with their divorce after which she went on to have a successful career as a leading official of the Race Relations Board and, later, the Commission for Racial Equality.
Mrs Rose was born Margaret Tatiana Price in Berlin, Germany, in 1920 where her father, Morgan Philips Price, fresh from reporting the Russian Revolution for the "Manchester Guardian" had taken a job as foreign correspondent of the "Daily Herald" newspaper. In 1919 he met and married Lisa Balster, secretary and confidante of socialist revolutionary, Rosa Luxemburg. Bullets zipped across the Unter den Linden as they took a honeymoon stroll while factions fought for supremacy in post WW1 Germany.
German was spoken at home, so Tania had to brush up on her English when the family moved back to England and settled at The Grove in Taynton. Lisa was astonished to find that her husband was the squire of Tibberton, a major landowner, fox hunter and part owner of Price Walker, Gloucester's biggest timber importer. He had omitted to tell her his true background for fear she would reject him as a suitable husband! Price later became Labour MP for the Forest of Dean and Father of the House of Commons.
Tania, and her brother, Peter, grew up on the family estate, were privately educated, and introduced to a variety of celebrities who were guests at the Grove including Sir Edward Elgar, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Ransome. One day Tania accompanied Ransome on a fishing expedition to the nearby River Leadon where he became so engrossed in the angling that he refused to speak to her. The occasion was later immortalised in Ransome's essay "To catch a Tench."
In 1943 Tania married William Rose at Tibberton Church. He was an American from Jefferson City, Missouri, who had joined the Canadian Black Watch to fight the Nazis and stayed in Britain when hostilities ceased, continuing his career in the film industry with the help of his bride. Their films won a total of two Academy Awards, a Bafta, an Edgar and three US Writers Guild prizes. They were nominated for awards on 13 occasions.
Tania Rose retired from the Commission in 1980 but continued to write, producing a biography, "T'was Brillig", editing her fathers letters, and researching the history of the Price family back to the time it first arrived in Tibberton in the 1730s. She survived a serious illness in 2002 and with the help of carers, organised by her granddaughter, Eleanor, continued to live in a flat at Tibberton Court, where she died on October 15. For many years she was the President of the Tibberton and District Horticultural Society and supporter of the Taynton & Tibberton Village Hall.
Her non religious funeral was held at the Forest of Dean Crematorium on October 22.
She is survived by her daughter, Alison Evans; granddaughters Claudia and Eleanor and four great grand children.
Copyright © 2015 Local World. All Rights Reserved.
0 new messages