Biography

Married to Hollywood film-screen-writer Stewart Stern (1922-2015, age 92); Among Stern's last film credits was the aptly titled "The Last Movie," a 1971 collaboration with Dennis Hopper, who'd had a very small role in "Rebel Without a Cause." The quasi-Western was a huge critical and commercial flop. By the early 1980s Stern was finished with Hollywood. He "hated the fact that I'd left my friends and walked out on my career," he told the Seattle Times in 1996. "I knew, though, that if I was ever going to write again, it would have to come out of a different place." Stern moved to Seattle when his wife, ex-ballerina Marilee Stiles Stern, was invited to teach at the Pacific Northwest Ballet.