Rose Leiman Goldemberg, the playwright and Emmy-nominated TV writer who was behind the telefilms The Burning Bed, starring Farrah Fawcett, and Stone Pillow, starring Lucille Ball, died Monday in Cape May, New Jersey, a publicist announced. She was 97.
The Staten Island native also penned Letters Home, a 1980 play about famed poet Sylvia Plath that has been translated and produced all over the world and was filmed for television in 1986.
Her telefilm résumé included 1976’s The Land of Hope; 1980’s Mother and Daughter: The Loving War, starring Tuesday Weld and Frances Sternhagen; 1982’s Born Beautiful, starring Erin Gray and Polly Bergen; 1985’s Florence Nightingale, starring Jaclyn Smith, and The Booth, starring Teri Garr; and 1989’s Dark Holiday, starring Lee Remick.
Goldemberg adapted The Burning Bed, which aired in October 1984 on NBC, from the 1980 book written by battered housewife Francine Hughes, who wound up on trial for the murder of her abusive ex-husband,...
The Staten Island native also penned Letters Home, a 1980 play about famed poet Sylvia Plath that has been translated and produced all over the world and was filmed for television in 1986.
Her telefilm résumé included 1976’s The Land of Hope; 1980’s Mother and Daughter: The Loving War, starring Tuesday Weld and Frances Sternhagen; 1982’s Born Beautiful, starring Erin Gray and Polly Bergen; 1985’s Florence Nightingale, starring Jaclyn Smith, and The Booth, starring Teri Garr; and 1989’s Dark Holiday, starring Lee Remick.
Goldemberg adapted The Burning Bed, which aired in October 1984 on NBC, from the 1980 book written by battered housewife Francine Hughes, who wound up on trial for the murder of her abusive ex-husband,...
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