She and her husband, Irving Ravetch, were among Hollywood’s most successful and literate script writers, collaborating on movies like “Hud” and “Norma Rae.”
. They believed character was more important than plot, wrote pauses into the action to let audiences linger over ambiguities and poignancy, and thought that scripts should aspire to literature and that films should carry the weight of novels.
Ms. Frank and Mr. Ravetch took similar liberties with three stories by Faulkner that were condensed into “The Long, Hot Summer” , with Mr. Newman playing an unscrupulous and ambitious drifter who stirs up family passions and trouble in a Mississippi town. “Possibly 10 percent of Faulkner is in that movie,” Mr. Ravetch told Mr. McGilligan.
Harriet’s mother, a Berkeley-educated lover of literature, had a Portland radio program, “Frances Frank — Speaking Frankly.” She not only changed the family name to Frank; upon arriving in Hollywood in 1939, she also changed her own given name to that of her daughter, becoming Harriet Frank Sr., and making her teenage daughter Harriet Frank Jr.
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