Lela Swift

Born February 1, 1919· New York City, New York, USA

† Died August 4, 2015

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Emerging from a New York City upbringing as Lillian Siwoff, she entered television through CBS’s secretarial pool, where she assisted on news programs and progressed to assistant director on anthology series before launching her own directing career in 1950. After a stint at NBC producing the Special for Women series and directing culturally focused episodes for educational television in the early…

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