w. husband Morris Engel

The daughter of silent screen actress Mary Ruby, she was a successful magazine photographer. She and her husband, Morris Engel, received international acclaim for THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (1953), a highly imaginative film about the Coney Island adventure of a boy who is convinced he has committed murder. They followed this with another offbeat low-cost film, LOVERS AND LOLLIPOPS (1955), which she also co-directed. She gained praise shortly before her death from cancer for Pictures Through My Window and other volumes of photographs of Central Park through the seasons, taken from the window of the Engels' high-rise Manhattan apartment.  Nominated for Writing (Motion Picture Story) 1953: THE LITTLE FUGITIVE (w. Ray Ashley & Morris Engel) 1 nomination