"Coffee took pride in her sharp eyesight (no need of eyeglasses); she continued to read avidly (mostly romantic paperbacks), to talk of writing (although her hands were not up to it), and to be witty and sharp-tongued. The afternoon visit with her was memorable for its bon mots, its rambling panorama of Hollywood life, and the sly, sexual innuendo so surprising in a woman whose storytelling roots were essentially Victorian (and Roman Catholic). One could detect a sense of what a feisty and inventive writer the young Lenore Coffee must have been, fresh off the train in 1919; what a formidable presence she must have been in a roomful of male studio executives."
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Patrick McGilligan, describing Coffee circa 1983; in Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age (2002), p. 134
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Lenore Coffee
(13 July 1896 – 2 July 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright and novelist.
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