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Monica Johnson

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For the artist, curator, and activist, see Monica McKelvey Johnson .
Monica Johnson
Born
Monica Lenore Belson

February 21, 1946
Colorado , U.S.
Died November 1, 2010 (2010-11-01) (aged 64)
Los Angeles , California , U.S.
Other names Monica McGowan
Monica McGowan Johnson
Occupation(s) Television writer
Screenwriter
Years active 1973?1999
Relatives Jerry Belson (brother)

Monica Johnson (February 21, 1946 ? November 1, 2010) was an American screenwriter whose film credits included Mother , Lost in America , Modern Romance , Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again and The Muse . Her television credits included The Mary Tyler Moore Show , Laverne & Shirley and It's Garry Shandling's Show . [1] She was a frequent collaborator with Albert Brooks . [1]

Early life [ edit ]

Johnson was born Monica Lenore Belson in 1946 in Colorado , but was raised in El Centro, California [1] and spent her early years in medical and dental assistants’ school. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Career [ edit ]

Her brother, Jerry Belson , an Emmy Award -winning screenwriter and film producer, hired her to type scripts for the TV series The Odd Couple around 1972; noticing that his sister added jokes to the scripts which met with the producers' approval, he suggested that she partner with Marilyn Suzanne Miller to form a writing team. Initially working under her married name of Monica Mcgowan in 1973, she and Miller wrote three scripts for The Mary Tyler Moore Show . For the second script, having remarried, she was credited as Monica Mcgowan Johnson . By the time of third script in 1974, she was credited as Monica Johnson , the professional name she used for the rest of her career.

Miller and Johnson broke up as a writing team in 1974; Miller became one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live in 1975.

Johnson later became a writer/producer on Laverne & Shirley , and worked on a couple of TV movies, then began her long-term screenwriting collaboration with Albert Brooks in 1979 with the film Real Life . The two co-wrote five more of Brooks' films over the following two decades. [6]

Johnson wrote the book Penny Saver (unpublished) and the movie Marrying for Money (unproduced), and began doing art work. [2]

Personal life [ edit ]

Johnson, a resident of Palm Springs, California , died of esophageal cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on November 1, 2010, aged 64. [1] [7]

Awards [ edit ]

Filmography [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c d McLellan, Dennis (2010-11-04). "Monica Johnson dies at 64; movie and TV writer" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2010-11-20 .
  2. ^ a b "R.I.P. Monica Johnson" . 2 November 2010.
  3. ^ " 'Muse,' 'Mother' co-writer Monica Johnson dies" . 3 November 2010.
  4. ^ "Award-Winning Comedy Writer Monica Johnson Dies" .
  5. ^ "Albert Brooks Pays Tribute to Monica Johnson" .
  6. ^ McGilligan, Patrick (2010). Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s . University of California Press. ISBN   9780520251052 .
  7. ^ "She Collected Lava Lamps (My Time with Monica Johnson)" . 29 November 2010.
  8. ^ "Real Life" .
  9. ^ "When Reality was a Joke: The Making of Albert Brooks' Real Life" . 6 November 2016.
  10. ^ "Modern Romance" .
  11. ^ "Albert Brooks' 'Lost in America' Remains Piercingly Relevant 32 Years Later" . 8 August 2017.
  12. ^ "It's Garry Shandling's Show (1986) [****]" .
  13. ^ "Meeting of the Comedy Minds" . 5 March 1997.
  14. ^ "Albert Brooks: Funnyman Whose Muse is in the Mirror" . 22 August 1999.

External links [ edit ]

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