Katherine Albert

Katherine Albert (sometimes credited as Katherine Eunson, her married name) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and TV writer.

Biography Katherine was born in Kentucky, the only child of George Albert and Logie Bell Evans Albert. As a young girl, she dreamed of becoming an actress, and she persuaded a family friend who was related to D. W. Griffith to get her an introduction when she moved to California at age 16.

At MGM, she met Dale Eunson (1904–2002), who later become the fiction editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. They married in 1931 and collaborated on a number of short stories, stage plays (including Loco, which ran on Broadway in 1946–47), and screenplays. Albert was encouraging of Joan's career, but preferred not to meddle: "I've had to work with a lot of movie mamas. Believe me, I want no part of that."

She and Eunson wrote most of their films and TV episodes after Albert suffered a major heart attack around 1950. During the 1950s and 1960s, they wrote half a dozen films and over a dozen TV episodes. They worked almost all the way up through Albert's death in 1970.

Eunson later remarried, to Berenice Dratler. The two lived in Santa Barbara, California before moving to the Motion Picture Retirement Home in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, in 1993. Eunson's second wife died there, predeceasing Eunson, who died there in 2002, aged 97, from natural causes.

Selected works Film Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) All Mine to Give (1957) Eighteen and Anxious (1957) Sabre Jet (1953) The Star (1952) On the Loose (1951)

Television Run for Your Life (1966–1968; two episodes) Karen (1965; one episode) Father of the Bride (1961; one episode) Leave It to Beaver (1959–1961; four episodes) The Rifleman (1959; one episode) General Electric Theater (1958–1961; three episodes) Buckskin (1958–1959; two episodes) Climax! (1957; one episode) TV Reader's Digest (1955; three episodes)