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Sarah Kernochan
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Screen Story Biography:Writer, producer, and director "Sarah Kernochan" first made her mark on the cinema with "Marjoe", her Oscar-winning 1972 documentary about B-movie actor and evangelist Marjoe Gortner. A 1968 graduate of Sarah Lawrence University, Kernochan got her start as a ghostwriter for the Village Voice, but she tired of journalism after a year and moved toward documentary filmmaking. Following "Marjoe", she switched gears again, recording two albums as a singer-songwriter.
After publishing two novels and working for a time as a playwright, Kernochan began pursuing a career as a Hollywood screenwriter. In 1986, she earned a certain dose of infamy as the screenwriter for "Adrian Lyne"'s controversial "9 1/2 Weeks", and she subsequently went on to write over 15 more screenplays. Included amongst them were the "Jodie Foster"/"Richard Gere" romantic drama "Sommersby" (1993) and "Impromptu" (1990), a 19th century... Full Biography
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