Biography

She was the eldest of three children of Milton Neely, a mechanical engineer, and Vera McCabe. After graduating from DePauw University, she began her career writing Spanish-language films, She later sold the screenplay "Pardon Our Nerve" to 20th Century Fox, marking her entry into English-language cinema. She was sometimes credited as "Betty Reinhardt."
- IMDb mini biography by: John T. Aquino

Although her film credits are relatively few, they include two distinguished films--"Laura" (1944) and "Cluny Brown" (1946) and she was well-regarded in the industry as a "script-doctor" of other writer's screenplays.

She started her film career in Spanish-language films and began her writing for English-language films at Twentieth Century Fox. She married John Reinhardt, a director of Spanish-language films at Fox.

For the low-budget western "The Tall Texan" (1953), produced by Lippert Pictures, the cast was filled with a well-known cast who took on the film because they were, at that time, virtually unemployable because of investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Marie Windsor slammed the script as "impossible" and she, Lee J. Cobb, Luther Adler and Lloyd Bridges lobbied to have Elizabeth Reinhardt brought in from her home in Malibu to work on the dialogue. The budget was so low that the line producer said there was no money left to pay her and that the executive producer, who was back in Hollywood, would have to pay for her out of his own pocket. He did, and Reinhardt received a film credit for "additional dialogue." It proved to be the last film she worked on because she died the next year. Despite its the low budget, the film is well-regarded for its literate script as well as its location filming and cast.