![]() ![]() Less about love than about love in the movies, the film drew inspiration from the beloved shipboard romance An Affair to Remember (1957), starring Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr. Ephron followed up by helming and co-writing Sleepless in Seattle (1993), a romantic comedy in which lovers Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are separated for most of the film. ![]() Ephron made her directorial debut with the comedy This Is My Life (1992), co-scripted by her sister Delia Ephron, which starred Julie Kavner as a single mother who struggles to establish herself as a stand-up comedienne. ![]() (1989) a clear-eyed view of modern romance, and she earned an Oscar nomination for her original screenplay. Ephron's hard-headed sensibilities helped make Rob Reiner's When Harry Met Sally. She was an acclaimed essayist (Crazy Salad 1975), novelist (Heartburn 1983), and had written screenplays for several popular films, all featuring strong female characters, such as anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood ( Silkwood (1983), co-written with Alice Arlen) and a mobster's feisty independent daughter Cookie Voltecki ( Cookie (1989), also co-written with Arlen). Nora Ephron was educated at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. ![]()
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