Hagar Wilde

Born Beverly Violet Bidwell in Toledo, Ohio, she entered the literary world as a prolific short-story writer and debut novelist before being recruited by Howard Hughes in 1931 to craft dialogue for the film The Age for Love. Her collaboration with director Howard Hawks produced the celebrated comedies Bringing Up Baby (1938), based on her own Collier’s Weekly story, and I Was a Male War Bride (194… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources