Roberta Hodes

Roberta Hodes is an American writer, director, producer, and script supervisor who was active from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Roberta Hodes
Born
Roberta Olivia Hodes

(1927-02-17) February 17, 1927
New York, New York, USA
EducationVassar College
OccupationScript supervisor, screenwriter, director

Biography

After graduating from Vassar College, she took acting classes in New York City alongside people like Rod Serling, Harry Belafonte, and Rod Steiger. She then spent time in Israel, where she got her first taste of the film industry working on a documentary.

She briefly went to Hollywood, where she got a job as a script reader. She quickly began to feel that she wouldn't have many opportunities as a woman in the industry, so she moved back to New York. There, she got her start as a script supervisor for Elia Kazan; three of her earliest credits were on On the Waterfront, Baby Doll, and A Face in the Crowd.[1]

She later got into producing, was noted as one of very few female producers during the 1960s.[2] She'd later co-write the 1962 film Lad, a Dog, and direct the 1977 film A Secret Space. Later, she'd work as a professor of film at New York University.[3] She retired in the early 1990s after being beaten by a police officer and suffering lasting injuries.[3]

Selected filmography

Director:

  • A Secret Space (1977)[4]

Writer:

Associate producer:

Actress:

  • Out of Evil (1951)

References
  1. "Hodes, Roberta O. (VC 1946) - Archives & Special Collections Library - Vassar College". specialcollections.vassar.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  2. "22 Nov 1960, 14 - The Daily Advertiser at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  3. "13 Dec 1991, 25 - Nanaimo Daily News at Newspapers.com". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  4. "A Secret Space". www.jewishfilm.org. Retrieved 2019-04-05.
  5. Blum, Daniel (1962). Screen World 1962. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. ISBN 9780819603036.


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