Jo Eisinger

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Jo Eisinger was a film writer whose credits include the adaptation of the 1946 film Gilda and the film noirs Night and the City and The Sleeping City. She was one of the few women screenwriters of her era. Eisinger also wrote for the 1960s ITV television program Danger Man and the mid-1980s HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Her script for an episode of the latter show, "The Pencil", earned her a 1984 Edgar Award.

Eisinger wrote the books for the Broadway plays What Big Ears! (1942) and A Point of Honor (1937) and was the author of a novel that was adapted into the film And The Walls Came Tumbling Down.