'Clover' author Gavin Lambert dies at 80
Gavin Lambert, the screenwriter and novelist who became an insightful chronicler of Hollywood in such works as his novel and screenplay Inside Daily Clover as well as his books On Cukor, Norma Shearer: A Life and Natalie Wood: A Life in Seven Takes, died Sunday of pulmonary fibrosis at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 80. The British writer, who became an American citizen in 1964, was twice nominated by both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the WGA for the 1960 screen adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, which he wrote with T.E.B. Clarke, and 1977's adaptation of the I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which he wrote with Lewis John Carlino.
- 7/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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