Other box office hits that Ephron wrote, directed and or produced include Sleepless in Seattle (1993), You’ve Got Mail (1998), and Julie & Julia (2009).Įphron was an outspoken feminist who, at her 1996 commencement speech, told that year’s graduating Wellesley class: Ryan’s table-pounding fake-orgasm scene with Crystal in Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side is probably the most well-known, followed by the unforgettable “I’ll have what she’s having” comment by a middle-aged woman sitting nearby. Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell starred in the Mike Nichols-directed film.Įphron’s greatest cinematic success was When Harry Met Sally… (1989), a romantic comedy directed by Rob Reiner starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, a saga of two people in love who try to have a purely platonic relationship. Her first screenplay, “Silkwood,” was a 1983 film based on the life of Karen Silkwood, who died under suspicious circumstances while investigating abuses at the plutonium plant where she had worked. In 1976 Ephron married American Jewish journalist Carl Bernstein –best known for exposing the Richard Nixon administration’s complicity in the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s – and went into the movie business soon after. In the late 1960s, Ephron began writing more for magazines, including Esquire and New York, and quickly made a name for herself through her personal, honest writing style and critical profiles of luminaries such as Ayn Rand and Betty Friedan. She covered stories like the Beatles, the Star of India robbery at the American Museum of Natural History, and a pair of seals at the Coney Island aquarium that would not mate. Ephron worked for Newsweek for a year where she was a fact checker and mail girl, and wrote for the New York Post for five years afterwards. She moved to New York City upon graduation in the spring of 1962 to become a journalist. When she was four years-old, her family moved to Beverly Hills, California, where she lived until the fall of 1958 when she began studying at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.Īt Wellesley, Ephron majored in political science, wrote for the weekly Wellesley News, and interned at the Kennedy White House during the summer of 1961. Nora Ephron was a distinguished Jewish American director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and blogger.īorn on to screenwriters Pheobe (nee Wolkind) and Henry Ephron in Manhattan, Nora was the eldest of four daughters.
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