Linda Gottlieb
Linda Gottlieb is an American television writer and film producer.
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Early life and education
Born in New Jersey, Gottlieb graduated from Wellesley College in 1960 and received an M.A. from the Russian Institute of Columbia University in 1961.
Career
Production credits
Examples of projects she has worked on include:
Films
- Limbo (1972), film starring Kate Jackson[1]
- The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey (1972)[2]
- The Fur Coat Club (1973), film short[3]
- Summer of My German Soldier (1978), made-for-TV movie
- The Mating Season (1980)
- We're Fighting Back (1981), TV movie[4]
- The Electric Grandmother (January 17, 1982), a television movie that originally aired on NBC as a 60-minute "Peacock Project" special
- Dirty Dancing (1987)
- Citizen Cohn (1992) cable TV film
- The Gentleman Bandit (2002)
- Soldier's Girl (2003)
Television episodes, series, and specials
- 13 Bourbon Street (1997), TV pilot[5]
- ABC Afterschool Specials[which?]
- ABC Weekend Specials[which?]
- NBC Special Treat[which?]
- One Life to Live (Executive Producer: 1991-1994); replaced Paul Rauch; hired Michael Malone and Josh Griffith[citation needed]. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa late 1991–1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime—too good to be called 'soap opera.'"[citation needed]
- SoapLine,[6] a TV series characterized as "a joint production of ABC News and ABC Daytime to bring viewers storyline updates, special features and interviews during breaks in live, pre-emptive coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial"[citation needed]
Teaching
She is an Adjunct Professor (Master Class in Screenwriting: One on One with a Producer) at Tisch School of the Arts.[citation needed]
Collaborators
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Personal life
Gottlieb was married to Paul Gottlieb in 1960; she remarried Robert Tessler in 1991. Her children are Nicholas Gottlieb and Andrew Gottlieb.
Awards and nominations
Gottlieb has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards,[citation needed] Outstanding Children's Anthology/Dramatic Programming (1980),[citation needed] and Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special (1977 & 1979),[citation needed] for three Emmy Awards (1979, 1982 & 1993),[citation needed] and for an Independent Spirit Award (1988)[citation needed] and a Peabody Award.[citation needed]
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- Living people
- Soap opera producers
- American film producers
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Emmy Award winners
- Columbia University alumni
- Wellesley College alumni
- Tisch School of the Arts faculty
