Rose Leiman Goldemberg

Rose Leiman Goldemberg

97 (1928-05-17)
Staten Island, New York, USA

Rose Leiman Goldemberg is an American playwright, screenwriter, poet, and author of fiction and non-fiction books and stories. Goldemberg is known for her dramatic and musical works based on biographies and true stories.

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The Burning Bed 1984 (6.969)

An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do. After he rapes her one night, she sets the bed on fire with him in it asleep.
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Florence Nightingale 1985 (5.7)

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.
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Letters Home 1986 (7.2)

A filmed adaptation of Rose Leiman Goldemberg’s play, based on Sylvia Plath’s intense correspondence with her mother Aurelia, from the time the poet was in university until her suicide. Delphine Seyrig and her niece Coralie Seyrig recite Sylvia and Aurelia’s letters to the audience directly.