Czenzi Ormonde

Having moved to Los Angeles as a teenager, she entered Hollywood as a studio secretary for Samuel Goldwyn, where she honed her writing skills while contributing short stories to magazines. Her first novel, Laughter from Downstairs (1948), drew on childhood memories, and a second book, Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1954), followed. In 1950 she was tapped by Alfred Hitchcock to assist on the scree… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources