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- Edmund L. Hartmann was born on September 24, 1911 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Family Affair (1966), To Rome with Love (1969) and The Smith Family (1971). He was married to Julie Riley and Virginia Smith. He died on November 28, 2003 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
- SpousesJulie Riley (her death, 1 child)Virginia Smith (her death)
- (1955-1959) President of the Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw)
- Was long associated as a scriptwiter with Bob Hope.
- Subject of an entertaining 'as told to' memoir by D. W. McCaffrey called "Bound And Gagged In Hollywood" (Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006).
- College classmates at Washington University in St. Louis included character actress Mary Wickes; lawyer and political insider Clark Clifford, Howard Morgens, future President of Proctor & Gamble; and, Kay Thompson, celebrated actress and nightclub performer and writer of the Eloise At The Plaza stories.
- [on writer John Grant] . . . a wonderful guy, a quiet, decent man. He had been in burlesque with Bud [Bud Abbott] and Lou [Lou Costello]. There are about 15 to 20 basic burlesque comedy routines. John's job was to take a finished script and go through it and see where they could inject these comedy routines.
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