Margaret Fitts grew up in Los Angeles. She graduated from Stanford University in 1945, where she studied speech, drama and journalism. She wrote a regular column for the Stanford Daily in her senior year. Ms. Fitts applied to the junior writers' program at MGM and was accepted, signing a studio contract in 1947. Her scripts were primarily adaptations, a noted exception being her original story and screenplay, The King and Four Queens. After leaving MGM in 1954 she worked in television for a time, then retired from the film business.

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Margaret Fitts

Writer