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- Birth nameViolet Lucille Fletcher
- Lucille Fletcher was born on March 28, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Lights Out (1946). She was married to Douglass Wallop and Bernard Herrmann. She died on August 31, 2000 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA.
- SpousesDouglass Wallop(January 1949 - April 1, 1985) (his death)Bernard Herrmann(October 2, 1939 - 1948) (divorced, 2 children)
- Developed the idea for her radio play 'Hitchhiker' (which was subsequently filmed) after twice seeing a strange-looking man (first on the Brooklyn Bridge and, again, on the Pulaski Skyway, New Jersey) while driving en route to Hollywood with her then-husband, Bernard Herrmann.
- Fletcher worked with first husband Bernard Herrmann on radio drama, including Orson Welles' "Mercury Theatre of the Air". She wrote the libretto for his opera "Wuthering Heights", but, by the time the opera was produced, the couple had parted.
- Attended Vassar College.
- Mother, with Bernard Herrmann, of Dorothy Herrmann.
- Worked at CBS during the Great Depression as a typist, music librarian and publicity writer.
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