Bridget Jean Collins Kerr, 1922 - 2003
Time magazine cover (14 April 1961)
Born: 10 July 1922, Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died: 5 January 2003, White Plains, New York
Bridget Jean Collins was raised at Scranton, Pennsylvania, received her B.A. from Marywood College in 1943 and an M.F.A. from Catholic University in 1945. She met Walter Kerr, a drama professor and later Pulitzer-winning critic, when she came to Catholic University, marrying in August. The Kerrs had a daughter and five sons. In 1946 the Kerrs wrote their first screenplay, and continued to collaborate for many years - in some cases writing together, in others Jean wrote and Walter directed. They bought a large, rundown house at Larchmont, New York and their experiences in raising children, Jean writing on the side (to get time to write she often locked herself in the car), and renovating the house was the basis for Please Don't Eat the Daisies, a 1957 book that became a movie with Doris Day and David Niven as the parents in 1960. In addition to writing for the stage she also wrote several books, before Erma Bombeck or Anna Quindlen she was writing with humor and insight about raising children and running a household while working. Her last dramatic effort was in 1980, although she continued to write for magazines. She died from complications of pneumonia.
Biography from Wikipedia and Washington Monthly
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- A hospital should also have a recovery room adjoining the cashier's office. permalink
Jean Kerr - A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. permalink
Jean Kerr - Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. permalink
Jean Kerr - Dearer to me than the evening star
A Packard car
A Hershey bar
Or a bride in her rich adorning
Dearer than any of these by far
Is to lie in bed in the morning. permalink
Jean Kerr - Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) - Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? permalink
Jean Kerr - Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. permalink
Jean Kerr - Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. permalink
Jean Kerr - I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. permalink
Jean Kerr - I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. permalink
Jean Kerr - I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. permalink
Jean Kerr - I will read anything rather than work. permalink
Jean Kerr - Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957) - I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? permalink
Jean Kerr - If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. permalink
Jean Kerr - If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out. permalink
Jean Kerr - In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing. permalink
Jean Kerr - Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
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