Norma Barzman is an admired screenwriter of 1940s films whose career was derailed by the Hollywood blacklist. died at the age of 103.
Out west, Barzman was enrolled by her older cousin, a writer, at the left-leaning School of Writers. In 1942, after a fateful meeting at a Halloween party,
Norma Barzman children: Meet Suzo Barzman
Barzman died at her home in Beverly Hills, California, on December 17, 2023, she has a daughter named Suzo Barzman who is an actress known for The Replacement Killers (1998), Summer of Sam (1999), and Mimic (1997).
Barzman met and married screenwriter Ben Barzman. Between the years 1949 and 1976, they lived in London, Paris, and Mougins (France), having been blacklisted from Hollywood. They had seven children.
Barzman was born on September 15, 1920, in New York City, New York. She started her career in 1946 writing the original story for Never Say Goodbye and The Locket. Later, she also wrote Finishing School (1952) and Il triangolo rosso (1967).