Screenwriter Dalene Young, whose honors include adult comedy dramas Little babya drama starring Tatum O'Neal and Kristy McNichol and Mary Steenburgen Cross Creekalready dead. She is 85 years old.

Her husband, Robert Martin Carroll, announced that Young died of Alzheimer's disease on May 9.

Young was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for co-written by the 1999 Showtime Children's Special Locked silently And nominated for Christopher Award and Artificial Award for his work on NBC Telefilm in 1992 Jonathan: No one wants a boy.

She also wrote a movie Baby Mining Club (1995) and Baby love (2000) and other TV series, including 1983 Will there really be a morning? - Based on the autobiography of actress Francis Farmer - 2000s The last dance and 2002 Miss Letty and me.

"At her heyday, she was arguably the top writer of the films she made," her husband noted.

Young also has a long career on stage, and her recent performance honors come from independent films pig (2021), starring Nicholas Cage.

Little baby (1980) co-founded this with Kimi Peck, which hit Paramount with a box office of $34.3 million and a domestic budget of $5.3 million.

Not long after, she was produced by producer Robert B. Radniz (Robert B. Cross CreekAbout the writer’s experience in rural Florida in the 1930s. Directed by Martin Ritt, Universal Film in 1983, along with Steenburgen and Steenburgen and Drew Oscar Noms, played Rip Torn, Alfre Woodard and Peter Coyote to tear, Woodard, costume design and score.

Born in Hawaii in 1939, Young spent her early years on Kuliouou outside Honolulu on the farm her family inherited from the last king of Hawaii. While playing and surfing with animals, she became interested in acting, especially during the Punehu school where President Obama will also attend.

After graduation, Young moved to San Francisco and a few months later to New York, where she sang in bars and clubs, many of whom were owned by Mobsters. "They will never let customers put any pressure on her," Carroll said. "They make sure she's safe home at night."

In the early 1960s, Young participated in outside scenes in Africa, performing in cafes and low-rent theatres. She also started writing at that time - she didn't care about the many roles she played - among which her drama was from 1969 What color is love?

She is “not only a talented, smart playwright, but one of the smartest young actresses among us” Theater Art Magazine has written.

After being hired by famous producer Ray Stark, Young left New York for Los Angeles in the late 1960s. She made friends with a bohemian character like Timothy Leary but missed theatre instead of caring for the Hollywood Commercial Theatre, but returned to New York a few months later. This time, she has a husband, Carroll, whom she met at a makeshift party.

A year later, Hollywood waved again, and she achieved her first big success in the 1976 NBC movie Dawn: Portrait of a teenager out of controla rating champion for starring Eve Plumb and admired for his candid discussion of teenage sexual behavior.

She also wrote the 1978 TV movie Deadman's curve, 1979 Can you hear laughter? Freddie Prinze's story and the 1980s Marilyn: Untold Stories.

For many years, Young ran a Los Angeles writing group before moving to Portland in 2006. This trip is very rich,,,,, Angry grapes and Kill an ignorant bird.

Besides her 53-year-old husband - he directed David Carradine starring Sonny Boy (1989) - Survivors include her daughter, Eden.

Stephen Galloway is the dean of Chapman University’s film school.