Claudine West

Claudine West
Born	16 January 1890 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire United Kingdom
Died	11 April 1943 Beverly Hills, California United States
Other names	Ivy Claudine Godber
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1929–1943 (film)

Claudine West (1890–1943) was a British novelist and screenwriter. She moved to Hollywood in 1929 and was employed by MGM on some of their biggest productions of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Many of the films she worked on were British-themed such as Goodbye, Mr. Chips and The White Cliffs of Dover.

Selected filmography

• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
• The High Road (1930)
• The Guardsman (1931)
• Son of India (1931)
• Jenny Lind (1932)
• Payment Deferred (1932)
• Reunion in Vienna (1933)
• The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
• The Dark Angel (1935)
• The Good Earth (1937)
• Marie Antoinette (1938)
• Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
• The Mortal Storm (1940)
• Random Harvest (1942)
• The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)

Bibliography

• Calder, Robert L. Beware the British Serpent: The Role of Writers in British Propaganda in the United States, 1939-1945. McGill-Queen's Press, 2004.

External links

• Claudine West at the Internet Movie Database