Emmet Lavery

Emmet Godfrey Lavery was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Poughkeepsie, Lavery trained as a lawyer, before devoting his career to the theatre and to film. He wrote the English libretto for Ernst Krenek's 1940 chamber opera Tarquin. 1943 saw him writing for three films: He was one of the team of 22 writers collaborating on the 1943 film Forever and a Day. He adapted Gregor Ziemer's 1943 book Education For Death for Edward Dmytryk's 1943 film Hitler's Children.